Pilot ‘ let X Factor model sit on his knee in cockpit’
AN AIRLINE pilot broke anti-terror laws by allowing a glamour model into his cockpit to play with the controls during a transatlantic flight.
Chloe Khan, a former X Factor contestant, said the captain ordered her champagne, told her to sit on his knee and smoked 40 cigarettes while flying from Heathrow to New York.
Miss Khan, 24, claims the married pilot begged to see her breasts and boasted about sleeping with half of the stewardesses on the plane, it was alleged.
Footage shows the unnamed pilot laughing and joking with Miss Khan and her friend. Passengers are prohibited from entering the cockpit under strict rules introduced after the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001.
Miss Khan, who is from Wakefield, Yorkshire, but now lives in Los Angeles, said the captain referred to himself as the ‘naughty pilot’ before telling her he was a member of the Mile High Club and was even wearing a tie-pin branded with the words.
The Playboy model, who previously performed as a singer under the name Chloe Mafia, said the pair were invited into the cockpit of the Kuwait Airways plane by a stewardess just after the seatbelt signs had been turned off.
Miss Khan says that when she asked the pilot about smoking and having passengers in the cockpit, he said he ‘made the rules’ and others were ‘too fussy’ about safety.
She told the Daily Star: ‘He 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. He was a total sleaze.
‘He was calling us sexy and asked us to call him naughty. You could tell he was getting off on it.’
She said the pilot spent hours entertaining them by singing songs including The Lion King’s Hakuna Matata and Toni Braxton’s Unbreak My Heart. The incident, which took place in July 2013, only emerged at the week- end following publication of the footage. Miss Khan said the co-pilot didn’t smoke or talk to the women, claiming he was more concerned with flying the plane.
Since appearing on the X Factor five years ago, Miss Khan has become a millionaire thanks to a webcam business in which she and other girls strip in front of the camera.
Kuwait Airways had not responded to calls to comment last night.