Passenger Tried To Enter Cockpit After Plane Took Off From Houston A passenger attempted to enter the cockpit on a Delta Air Lines flight departing Houston’s Hobby Airport Wednesday. Delta Flight 2557, a Boeing 717, had just taken off for Atlanta around 5:25 a.m. with 85 customers and five crew members on board when pilots declared an emergency and returned to Houston Hobby Airport. The pilot told air traffic control, “We had a passenger get up and try to access the cockpit. Can you coordinate and have security standing by, as well as paramedics, please,” the pilot said. “[He’s] in cuffs in the back of the aircraft, but he did assault another passenger, so we’d like that passenger checked out.”
