

They shouldn’t have been on the plane and shouldn’t have been anywhere NEAR the terminal either.
Imagine the pilot’s buddy in the terminal texts him in the air like “lots of cops on the tarmac, wonder what’s going on?”
If their hand had been tipped that they were on the plane or on the ground, there is a real chance that everyone on that plane would die.
Pilots are 100% on their phones in the air.