Overview
- Pilots declared an emergency minutes after departing Omaha for Los Angeles when they lost contact with the cabin and heard knocking on the cockpit door.
- The FAA said an inter-phone malfunction prevented cockpit–cabin communication and confirmed the knocking came from the flight attendants.
- Emergency crews met the Embraer 175 on landing, and airport officials said there was no security-related incident.
- SkyWest said the jet returned out of an abundance of caution due to a flight crew microphone issue and apologized to passengers.
- After checks, the same aircraft departed again and arrived at LAX several hours late, according to flight-tracking data.