Saturday, April 28, 2012
Jetblue pilot has a breakdown on plane and goes crazy JetBlue flight 191 march 27,2012
peopleofpublictransit.blogspot.com Jetblue captain has breakdown on plane 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 captain was identied as Milwaukee-native Clayton Osbon, according to Fox News. 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 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 fiancĂ© again?' " JetBlue Flight 191 — an Airbus A320 that can hold 150 people — made its emergency ...
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