Good morning, baseball fans!
I’ve got a truly bizarre story for you today, involving former San Francisco Giants coach Hensley “Bam Bam” Meulens.
Meulens, now the hitting coach for the Colorado Rockies, posted a (now deleted) video on Instagram of himself sitting in the captain’s seat of the cockpit on the Rockies’ plane while it was in flight. In a recovered clip of the video, it shows Meulens joking about landing the plane, as the first officer looks on from the next seat.
This is, uh, not allowed. Per a statement to SF Gate, United Airlines confirms that there is an ongoing investigation taking place by the Federal Aviation Administration, adding:
“As a clear violation of our safety and operational policies, we’ve reported the incident to the FAA and have withheld the pilots from service while we conduct an investigation.