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Five Mesa Airlines employees have been fired after a company pilot couldn’t get on a flight to Denver because it was full. He was so desperate to get to Denver, he convinced the crew to let him make the flight locked in a bathroom on the plane. “They had two pilots and one sitting on the john,” an FAA spokesman said. The three-member flight crew was fired, as were two other off-duty employees riding on the plane. (AP) ...The third-class cabin is for paying customers only, pal.


Publication Date: 25 August 1996

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