Plane makes emergency landing after pilots lose contact with flight attendants and hear banging on cockpit door

WASHINGTON (CNN) — An American Airlines flight, operated by SkyWest Airlines, made an emergency landing Monday night in Nebraska, after the pilots could not reach the flight attendants and heard someone outside the cockpit door, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

Flight 6469 took off from Omaha’s Eppley Airfield at 6:41 p.m. local time headed to Los Angeles but almost immediately turned around, landing just 18 minutes later, according to the tracking site FlightAware.

Henry Gruver was seated in the front row of the main cabin, traveling to Japan with his wife and 7-year-old daughter.

“All of a sudden, we started banking around the city of Omaha. And, you know, you’re tilting the wings and everything,” Gruver told CNN. “My wife noticed that the stewardess was kind of bangi