Pilots grounded their flight after losing communication with flight attendants and believing someone was trying to break into the cockpit.

Brian Windhorst, an ESPN insider and former Beacon Journal reporter, recalled his experience on the flight, from mid-air U-turn to police surrounding the plane.

No one was injured.

Omaha, Nebraska, to Los Angeles is a roughly 3½-hour flight, but on Oct. 20, American Airlines flight 6469 landed after an abrupt 18 minutes, returning to Omaha.

The quick U-turn flight ended after pilots lost communication with the flight attendants and feared that the banging on the cockpit door was a sign that someone was trying to break into the cockpit.

"About 10 minutes into the flight, all of a sudden, we took a very hard U-turn," ESPN reporter and former Beacon

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