Pilot stuck in lavatory sparks security scare

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The pilot of a flight from North Carolina to New York accidentally caused a terror scare when he became locked in a restroom and asked for help.

Chatauqua Airlines said the pilot, who was flying Wednesday from Asheville, N.C., to LaGuardia Airport, took a bathroom break shortly before the plane's scheduled landing and the latch on the door jammed, the New York Post reported Thursday.

The captain called for help, and a man sitting in the front row of the plane responded. The pilot asked the passenger, who had a foreign accent, to alert the crew in the cockpit to the situation.

However, the co-pilot was spooked when the man knocked on the door to the cockpit.