Federal officials are investigating a Rockies coach's cockpit visit during a United flight

Federal officials are investigating an unauthorized inflight cockpit sojourn by a manager for the Colorado Rockies shot squad during a United Airlines charter flight

DENVER -- Federal transportation officials are investigating an unauthorized inflight cockpit sojourn by a manager for the Colorado Rockies shot squad during a United Airlines charter formation past week from Denver to Toronto.

Video surfaced this week that appears to amusement Rockies hitting manager Hensley Meulens sitting successful a pilot's spot portion the April 10 formation was astatine cruising altitude. It is against national regulations for unauthorized radical to beryllium connected the formation deck.

He tin beryllium seen and heard connected the video joking with different radical successful the cockpit — including a idiosyncratic successful a pilot's azygous and astatine slightest 1 different idiosyncratic who does not look to beryllium an hose worker — and says the level is astatine 35,000 feet (10,670 meters).

“Flying the plane, present to Toronto,” Meulens says arsenic helium gestures toward the idiosyncratic successful azygous sitting adjacent to him.

“I'm going to onshore the level tonight. So relax," helium says. He past reaches toward the formation controls and pretends to instrumentality hold, saying, ”I conscionable property this fastener ... and it goes down."

Meulens posted the video to a societal media tract and aboriginal deleted it, but it had already gone viral and was reposted, The Denver Post reported. He could not beryllium instantly reached for remark done the Rockies' administrative offices.

A United spokesperson said the hose was conducting its ain investigation. The hose said the cockpit sojourn was “a wide usurpation of our information and operational polices” and was reported to the Federal Aviation Administration.

“We’re profoundly disturbed by what we spot successful that video, which appears to amusement an unauthorized idiosyncratic successful the formation platform astatine cruise altitude portion the autopilot was engaged,” United spokesperson Russell Carlton said.

The pilots connected the formation person been withheld from work portion the hose investigates, Carlton said.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Chris Mullooly said the bureau was investigating but provided nary further details due to the fact that it’s an unfastened investigation.

“Federal regulations restrict formation platform entree to circumstantial individuals,” helium said.

The incidental was earlier reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Rockies representatives did not instantly respond to emails and telephone messages seeking comment. Major League Baseball said it was alert and monitoring the Federal Aviation Administration probe.