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Pilot buys pizzas for 160 passengers grounded by storm

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This might have been the best meal served on a plane.

A Frontier Airlines pilot treated passengers to a pizza party on Monday after their flight was experiencing a dreadful delay and had run out of food.

A Frontier Airlines flight attendant passes out pizza to passengers aboard a Denver-bound flight diverted to Cheyenne, Wyo.AP

Stranded on the runway for nearly two hours, passengers were apparently growing hungry, and one of the pilots knew he had to act fast.

Traveling from Washington, D.C., to Denver, the plane had been diverted to Cheyenne, Wyoming, due to a series of storms in the area, CNN reports.

After realizing that the plane’s food supplies had been completely depleted, the pilot made the decision to order out … and the passengers reaped the benefits.

“Next thing you know, Domino’s Pizza was rolling up to the plane,” passenger Logan Torres said.

Adam Ritchie, a manager at Domino’s, said he had never received a phone call like the one he got that night.

“I need to feed my whole plane,” the pilot told him over the phone.

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Frontier Airlines did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press, but KUSA-TV said the company confirmed the episode.

Ritchie was shocked by the number of pies he had to bake.

“Lucky me, I hear 160 people,” he said. “It ended up being like 38 pizzas.”

The flight took off around 10:30pm, shortly after the pies were delivered, KUSA-TV reports.