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Student Pilot Tried Bum-Rushing Plane’s Cockpit Mid-Flight: Complaint

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Nathan Jones told flight attendants that he “was testing them,” according to a criminal complaint obtained by The Daily Beast.

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Alaska Airlines commercial airplanes parked off to the side of the airport in San Diego, California.
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