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An unfortunate pilot was snapped making an undignified entrance to the cockpit after being locked out of his aircraft.  

The Southwest Airlines pilot reportedly became shut out of the plane after the last passenger to alight the previous flight unwittingly closed the door behind them with no one else onboard. 

Matt Rexroad, who posted the hilarious image to wrote on the site: ‘No joke… yesterday last passenger got off plane with no one else on board, he shut the door. 

‘Door locked.Pilot having to crawl through cockpit window to open door so we can board.’

In the picture the suited pilot is seen clambering through the right hand window and shimmying his legs inside with the hep of a yellow-vested groundman. 

In a statement Southwest Airlines said: ‘During the boarding process, a Customer opened the forward lavatory door and inadvertently pushed the Flight Deck door closed (which locked) while the Pilots scheduled to operate the flight were preparing to board the aircraft. 

‘One of our Pilots unlocked the door from a Flight Deck window, and the flight departed as scheduled.’ 

A similar incident occurred when an American Airlines pilot was filmed clambering through his cockpit window.

The video, posted to TikTok was captioned with the description ‘when your flight gets delayed because your pilot locked himself out of the cockpit.’