If you think turbulence is scary, imagine a flight where the crew fears someone is breaking into the cockpit. That’s exactly what ESPN’s Brian Windhorst experienced this week, and it felt like a thriller at 30,000 feet.

Windhorst was flying with American Airlines from Omaha to Los Angeles on Monday evening when things suddenly went wrong. Just ten minutes after takeoff, the plane made a sharp U-turn.

“About ten minutes into the flight, all of a sudden we took a very hard U-turn,” Windhorst told ESPN. He glanced at his Wi-Fi screen and saw something that surprised him. “It should have been three hours and 15 minutes left. Instead, it said 14 minutes.”

At first, he figured something was wrong with the plane. But then came the banging. “Next thing I know, I hear-bang, bang, bang. I’m like,

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