An Air New Zealand Boeing 777 captain, described as a stickler for punctuality, locked his co-pilot out of the cockpit after the pair had a mid-air row over the plane’s 13-minute-late takeoff.
The pilots argued during the seven-hour flight from Perth in Western Australia to Auckland, New Zealand. After the co-pilot left the flight deck of the Boeing 777 for a break, he found the door locked. The captain refused repeated requests to let him back in.
Air New Zealand said the co-pilot was forced to gain access to the plane’s cockpit using an alternative entry method, which it declined,