“The Plane Went Silent at 30,000 Feet — Until an 11-Year-Old Girl Took the Pilot’s Seat”

of the aircraft, speaking in urgent whispers. Most tellingly, the aircraft was flying too straight, too level, with no corrections or adjustments in its flight path for over 10 minutes.

She knew what that meant.

Autopilot with no human oversight.

The senior flight attendant, a woman named Patricia, was trying the cockpit door entry code. She had entered continue reading …