Article About Man Locked In Plane Raises More Questions Than It Answers

Apparently, Tom Wagner fell asleep on a United Express flight from Louisiana to Houston and the flight crew somehow missed him when they left and locked up the plane. Apparently, he had to call his girlfriend to get someone to come and let him out. This all seems fairly self-explanatory at first, though amusing and strange, but then I start thinking. Really, there are questions raised here that the article doesn’t answer.

I mean, the guy wakes up alone on an airplane. Sure, he calls for help to be let out…but did he go check out the cockpit? Was the door to it open? If so, I hope he at least went to check it out up there while he was waiting.

After all, it used to be if you were a kid flying and things weren’t busy you could go up and sit in the cockpit sometimes, just to see things. However, I didn’t first fly until I was in high school. As such, I was never invited to check out the cockpit (and no, I’ve never been in a Turkish prison). Now days, you can’t get into the cockpit unless you’re flight crew, perhaps only if you’re one of the pilots. You sometimes get to see in when you walk by when the flight is on the ground, but you never really get to take a close look.

I’d love to get to sit in the cockpit and look at all the flight stuff up there.

Did Tom take the opportunity to check this out? Was the opportunity even available? Remember the video of the guy freaking out when he’s alone on the train? Did Tom do anything like that?

The article doesn’t mention this at all. I really wish it did. This is a legitimate question.