Following a passenger's unintentional locking of the flight deck door, a Southwest Airlines pilot was observed scaling through the cockpit glass.
According to the New York Post, the incident took place on May 24 at San Diego International Airport and involved a Southwest Airlines flight headed for Sacramento.
The unidentified pilot could be seen in a shot crawling through the tiny, square window from the top of a set of moveable boarding stairs. Max Rexroad, a passenger, captured the image, which has since gone popular on social media.
"No joke, the last passenger left the plane yesterday with no other passengers there, and he shut the door. a locked door. To open the door so that we could board, the pilot had to squeeze through the cockpit glass, Rexroad said with the picture on Twitter.
Rexroad told CNN that as he was preparing to board a jet for Sacramento to San Diego, he noticed the pilot of the aircraft climbing through a window.
A passenger accidentally closed the flight deck door (which was locked) when the pilots who were supposed to fly the trip were getting ready to board the aircraft during the boarding process, while other passengers and flight attendants were already on board.
The flight took off on schedule when one of our pilots opened the door from a flight deck window, the airline said in a statement to CNN.
"It is incredible how far this pilot went to get this trip out. We arrived only eight minutes late. Southwest Airlines made an impressive effort, Rexroad remarked.
Southwest Airlines responded by writing on Twitter, "Well that is definitely something you don't see every day."
