A JetBlue flight captain had to be tackled by passengers today after he ran up and down a packed flight screaming about "terrorism" and "al Qaeda" in a terrifying mid-air outburst.
“Say your prayers!” the crazed pilot screamed as he ran up and down the aisle, a passenger told The Post.
“Someone next to me said he was saying something about bombs,” recounted the passenger, Tiffany Lee, a 26-year-old Las Vegas resident.
The Amarillo Globe-News also quoted passengers on board saying the pilot was screaming about al Qaeda.
"Iraq, al Qaeda, terrorism — we're all going down," he yelled, according to witnesses.
Laurie Dhue, a former FOX News Channel anchor who was on board the flight, told the network passengers could hear the pilot using the words "Afghanistan" and "Israel" during the tirade.
The crazed captain’s outburst came after he was booted from the cockpit, passengers said.
He banged on the cockpit door asking to be let back in before passengers subdued him, said authorities.
Four passengers, including a retired NYPD sergeant jumped up and held the man down, Fox 5 reported.
“It was so scary,” said Lee. “People around me were freaking out a little bit. The girl next to me was saying, ‘Oh my god, what If I never talk to my fiancé again?’ ”
JetBlue Flight 191 — an Airbus A320 that can hold 150 people — made its emergency landing in Amarillo, Texas at 10:11 a.m. local time.
The flight had departed from JFK at 7:28 a.m.
Grainy YouTube footage purportedly taken by one passenger aboard the flight after its landing showed a scrum at the front of the plane as an attendant reminded them to stay seated and scolded people for taking video, saying, "We don't need pictures of this, please."
JetBlue said in a statement that the captain had a “medical situation” and was taken to an Amarillo hospital.
He was replaced on the flight deck by an off-duty captain who happened to be on the plane, the airline said.
The FBI is apparently investigating the incident.
In August 2010, JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater gained national attention when he grabbed some beers, deployed his JetBlue plane’s emergency chute on the JFK tarmac and slid right off his job after an argument with a testy passenger.
‘I’ve had it! To the passenger who called me a motherf----r, f--k you! . . . I’m done!” Slater bellowed into the plane intercom before taking the slide.
Two weeks ago, an American Airlines flight attendant had to be restrained after a "mental episode" where she began ranting over the public-speaker system that the plane was going to crash.
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Jet black and blue
Jet black and blue
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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These are the people that are FLYING our planes...ok...
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"Colonialism is not 'winning' - it's an unsustainable model. Like your hairline." -- Candace Linklater
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Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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Here's the mug....
He has 18,000 hrs of flying time and worked with JetBlue since 2001.
He has 18,000 hrs of flying time and worked with JetBlue since 2001.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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Even pilots suffer from mental illness. One assumes the requirement for a copilot is to cover mental breakdowns as well as heart attacks.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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...not to mention being able to cover if the pilot eats the fish.
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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JetBlue pilot Clayton Osbon charged over flight chaos
The US flight captain who suffered an apparent mental breakdown during a domestic flight has been charged with interfering with cabin crew.
Court documents say JetBlue's Clayton Osbon told his co-pilot "we're not going to Vegas" and started ranting.
Mr Osbon began screaming about a bomb and had to be restrained by passengers about three-and-a-half hours into a flight from New York to Las Vegas.
Flight 191, carrying 135 people, made an emergency landing in Texas.
Earlier on Tuesday JetBlue said Mr Osbon had been suspended.
The airline's chief executive David Barger told NBC News that there was nothing in Mr Osbon's records suggesting he could be a risk.
"I've known the captain personally for a long period of time and there's been no indication of this at all," Mr Barger said.
Mr Osbon is currently at a medical facility.
According to passenger accounts Mr Osbon came out of the cockpit, left the door open and tried to force his way into an occupied bathroom.
As he became more agitated, crew members tried to calm him down and move him away from the cockpit.
He began running through the aisles, calling on passengers to pray and shouting: "They're going to take us down!"
One passenger, Don Davis, said: "Nobody knew what to do because he is the captain of the plane. You're not just going to jump up and attack the captain."
Eventually, several male passengers brought Mr Osbon to the ground and restrained him using seat belt extensions and zip-tie handcuffs.
An off-duty pilot who happened to be on board took over and helped land the plane.
Tony Antolino, one of the passengers who helped restrain the captain, said: "Clearly, he had an emotional or mental type of breakdown.
"He became almost delusional. A group of us just jumped up instinctually and grabbed him and put him to the ground."
Another passenger, Gabriel Schonzeit, told the Amarillo Globe-News: "He started screaming about al-Qaeda and possibly a bomb on the plane and Iraq and Iran and about how we were all going down."
Once on the ground in Amarillo, Texas, passenger Grant Heppes said each person was interviewed after leaving the plane.
An FBI spokeswoman said the agency was investigating the incident, along with federal air and transport safety regulators, airport police and local police.
The Federal Aviation Administration has said it is likely to review whether Mr Osbon should be certified healthy enough to work.
Pilots must have a first-class medical certificate in order to fly. It is renewed every six months to one year, depending on the pilot's age.
The medical test includes a physical examination and questions about the pilot's psychological condition.
A few weeks earlier, an American Airlines attendant was taken off a plane after she began rambling about 9/11 and that she was afraid the flight would crash.
Aviation expert John Cox told the Associated Press news agency that he could only think of three or four cases in the last 40 years when a crew member had become mentally incapacitated during a flight.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17544301
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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An off-duty pilot who happened to be on board took over and helped land the plane.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato