‘A Clear Violation’: MLB Coach’s Cockpit Video Triggers FAA Investigation
The Federal Aviation Administration is not laughing at a video posted by a Colorado Rockies coach that showed him in one pilot’s seat as the team flew to Canada recently. Colorado Rockies hitting coach Hensley Meulens…
The Federal Aviation Administration is not laughing at a video posted by a Colorado Rockies coach that showed him in one pilot’s seat as the team flew to Canada recently.
Colorado Rockies hitting coach Hensley Meulens was videoed in the cockpit of a United Airlines charter flight to Toronto last week.
“Had some fun in the cockpit on our flight from Denver to Toronto,” Meulens wrote in the caption of his since-deleted Instagram video, according to Yahoo Sports.
“Thanks to the captain and the first officer of our United charter that allowed me this great experience,” he wrote.
A copy of the video posted to X includes multiple voices speaking and shows Meulens sitting in one seat as he jokes about landing the plane.
“Flying the plane, here to Toronto,” Meulens said.
“I’m going to land the plane tonight, so relax,” he said, before noting that the plane was currently flying at 35,000 feet.