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Flight from Washington to Denver was diverted because of bad weather

The plane was stuck on the ground in Wyoming for about two hours

There was no more food aboard, so the pilot decided to order pizza

CNN  — 

Adam Ritchie, a Domino’s Pizza manager in Cheyenne, Wyoming, said he’d never received a call like the one he got Monday night.

“I need to feed my whole plane,” the caller told him.

“Lucky me, I hear 160 people. It ended up being like 38 pizzas,” Ritchie told CNN.

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Pilot buys pizza for delayed passengers
01:00 - Source: HLN

A Frontier Airlines flight from Washington to Denver was diverted to Cheyenne because of bad weather. The plane was stuck on the ground for nearly two hours.

The food on board was gone, so the pilot decided to order pizzas for everyone, a passenger told CNN affiliate KDVR. Each row got its own pie.

“Next thing you know, Domino’s Pizza was rolling up to the plane,” passenger Logan Torres told CNN. She sent CNN photos of flight attendants passing out boxes.

Frontier Airlines spokeswoman Tyri Squyres said she wasn’t surprised at all by what the pilot did.

“This is not unusual for our pilots to go above and beyond to care for our customers,” she said. “We have some great pilots who work here.”

Passengers got a pizza surprise after their flight was grounded for two hours.

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