Sorry to disappoint you - it's an old, old urban legend http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/fireaxe.htm David R http://home.attbi.com/~damiross http://home.attbi.com/~damiross/books.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill dunn" <billdunn2@xxxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 20:44 Subject: [AIRLINE] heard from a friend about this Locked out pilot > apparently this is a true story > the captain and co pilot were flying then the captain decide to take a > walk to visit the passengers > later the co-pilot need to relive himself he waited and waited for the > captain to return > > he ducked out of the cockpit and into the lavatory after he was finished > -he found out he was locked > out of the cockpit -he contacted the captain and found he too left the > cockpit with out his > keys - > they had to use a fire ax to get back to the cockpit