911 dispatchers hear a lot of things, but one call from an airline worker trapped in the cargo hold of an Alaska Airlines flight is something most probably have never encountered before.
"I'm in this plane!" a man says.
"You're where?" the 911 operator incredulously responds.
"I'm inside a plane!"
Listen to the call:
In addition to calling 911, the airline worker banged on the ceiling of the cargo hold, which got the pilots' attention. They then turned the plane around, and landed back at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport about 14 minutes after taking off.
"We just took off for L.A. regular and then about, oh, about five minutes into the flight, the captain came on and said we were going back, and we'd land within five to seven minutes, and we did," Marty Collins, a passenger on the flight, told Seattle's KOMO News. "When we landed was when all the trucks and the police and the fire trucks surrounded the plane."
Alaska Airlines said it is investigating the incident.