A Jet2 passenger spotted a can of beer inside the cockpit on a recent flight from Alicante (ALC), Spain, to Birmingham (BHM), England. The passenger, Steve Lewis, took a picture of the can of Stella Artois sitting next to one of the pilots.

“The plane had landed and the seatbelt light came off. I stood up to get my suitcase and as I did the cockpit door opened and I noticed the can in the cockpit,” Lewis told the Metro. “I turned to my partner Steven, who didn’t believe me at first, but then he noticed you could clearly see the Stella branding.

“I was so shocked, I couldn’t understand why there was alcohol in the cockpit.”

“I’m a bit skeptical to whether it was there because someone had left it,” he added. “It concerns me that alcohol is even allowed in the cockpit if it was open or not.”

Lewis said he told the airline about the incident, and the airline responded it was not taken aboard one of its flights.

“I felt like I was being accused of lying,” he said. “This is what upset me the most, I explained to her that I could prove it was taken on the Alicante to Birmingham flight and she replied to say that the can had been given to the pilot for safe keeping.”

Jet2 confirmed the second explanation in a statement to the Metro.

“Upon further investigation of the photograph, we can confirm that it is an unopened can which had been handed to a member of our cabin crew by a customer when they were leaving the aircraft,” an airline spokesperson said.

“This unopened can was then put down in the cockpit by the member of cabin crew so that she could continue helping customers as they disembarked.”