Ex-porn star claims Kuwait Airways pilot sat her on his knee en route to JFK
Chloe Mafia tells British tabloid she and a friend spent hours in the cockpit, pushed controls, as pilot sang and smoked
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A former porn star and Playboy model claimed the pilot of a Kuwait Airways passenger jet invited her into the cockpit as it flew over the Atlantic from London to New York, sat her on his knee and allowed her to push buttons on the plane’s control panels.
The claim by British-born Chloe Mafia was reported Sunday in Britain’s tabloid Daily Star, which published photographs of the alleged incident and said it had also viewed video footage showing the unnamed pilot smoking in the cockpit. It did not say when the alleged incident took place.
If confirmed, it would represent a breach of numerous safety regulations, including bans on passengers inside the cockpit, introduced after the 9/11 terror attacks.
The paper posted a video online purporting to show the pilot and Mafia singing in the cockpit. She said he sang songs to her and a friend, including The Lion King’s “Hakuna Matata” and Toni Braxton’s “Un-break My Heart.”
Mafia, 24, a former contestant in Britain’s “X Factor” talent show who now lives in Los Angeles, said that the pilot sent a stewardess to fetch her and her friend to the cockpit soon after takeoff from London’s Heathrow Airport, locked the door behind them, offered them alcohol, and entertained them for hours as the plane, with 300 passengers on board, made its way to New York’s JFK airport.
“They locked the door and the captain introduced himself and said ‘Hi, I’m the naughty pilot,’” Mafia, whose real name is Chloe Khan, told the paper. “He said he lets sexy girls in the cockpit, even though he’s not supposed to,” she went on. “The pilot told the stewardess to get us a bottle of champagne, which me and my friend drank. He started smoking, which I thought was odd, but he said he was the pilot and could do what he wanted. I asked if it was safe, as I was worried and he just said people were ‘too fussy’ about safety. I was stunned.”
At one point, she said, the pilot “was showing us what each of the buttons did and said we could sit on his knee and wear his pilot’s cap and fly the plane. I pushed something. I don’t know what it did, but he said it was fine as the plane flew itself.”
The co-pilot, she added, “didn’t smoke or really say that much — he made a couple of jokes but thankfully he seemed more concerned with flying the plane.”
The paper said Kuwait Airways did not respond when asked to comment on the allegations.
The Times of Israel Community.