A Boeing 777 belonging to United Airlines was forced to make an emergency landing after the hijack signal started to transmit from within the plane’s cockpit.  As it turns out, United Flight 940, carrying 241 passengers and 14 crew members from Chicago, Illinois, to Frankfurt, Germany, wasn’t being hijacked.  The distress signal was the result of the pilot spilling hot coffee in the cockpit.

According to the FAA, the plane’s pilot “had inadvertently squawked a 7500 code after spilling coffee on the aircraft’s radio equipment, which interfered with the communications equipment.”  United spokesman Rahsaan Johnson confirmed the accident, saying, “It was a beverage.  During light turbulence one of the crew members’ beverages spilled which then caused issues with the airplanes communications equipment.”

Passengers and crew were flown back to Chicago from Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Canada, on another plane; they left for Germany as scheduled the next day, presumably without any coffee.

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