"Ladies and gentlemen this is your captain snapping..."

[nostatic]

This is whack...

JetBlue Captain's Erratic Behavior Forces Emergency Landing, Passengers Say | Fox News

A JetBlue plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Amarillo, Texas, on Tuesday after the captain had what the airline called a "medical situation" while on the plane.

JetBlue 191, which was headed from New York’s Kennedy Airport to Las Vegas, was forced to make the landing after the pilot reportedly ran up and down the aisles screaming “Say your prayers” after he was locked outside the cockpit, The New York Post reported, citing a passenger.

“Someone next to me said he was saying something about bombs,” the passenger, Tiffany Lee, 26, told the paper.

Another passenger told Fox 5 News that a man wearing a pilot’s uniform ran down the aisle screaming and banging on the cockpit door to let him in.

One of the flight attendants reportedly got on the intercom and asked passengers to restrain the man. Several followed the instructions and pinned the man until the plane landed, the report said.

One of the four passengers who helped subdue the man was a retired NYPD sergeant, The Post reported.

David Gonzalez, a former corrections officer who was headed to a security conference in Las Vegas, told Fox News that the pilot tried to break into the cockpit and struggled with the flight attendants and appeared to want to open the plane’s side door.

“I said, ‘Hey, what’s the problem,’” Gonzalez said. “And the stewardess said, 'Can you help me?’”

Gonzalez said the pilot began yelling about Iraq and Iran. After a two minute struggle, Gonzalez said he was able to subdue the pilot. Other passengers then stepped in and tied the pilot, he said.

One of the co-pilots reportedly convinced the captain to leave the cockpit and locked him out, CBSDFW.com reported. Another JetBlue pilot, who was off-duty but on the plane, took over the other’s duties.

“He picked the wrong plane. Huge guys just tackled him. The response was Olympics kind of stuff,” one passenger said, according to CBSDFW.com.

There are reports that the pilot may have been a war veteran.

A spokeswoman from JetBlue told FoxNews.com that the passengers will be reimbursed for the flight and receive a credit for twice the value of their ticket. The airline would not release the pilot’s name or medical history.

[RWebb]

maybe they should let those guys get a decent night's sleep before flying a discount air craft

but, JB's stock is supposed to be a good buy!

[9dreizig]

what I want to know is how did the co-pilot get the captain out of the cockpit ? And what did he say in the cockpit to make them not let him back in ??

[RWebb]

he said: "I rate both those chicks a solid 10!!!"

[911pcars]

What if the Captain was justified in his actions and the passengers still subdued and restrained him? I guess you just had to be there.

Sherwood

[VaSteve]

Didn't we have a flight attendant snapping a couple of weeks ago?


http://articles.cnn.com/2012-03-09/travel/travel_dallas-airpot-flight-delay_1_flight-attendant-chicago-flight-plane-crashes?_s=PM:TRAVEL

[Bob Kontak]

It's the new "postal"

[Shaun @ Tru6]

What's in the air and water in TX and FL?

[bivenator]

The pilot bore no resemblance to the (ab)normie that used to frequent here. Bit of a suprise.

[911pcars]

Originally Posted by VaSteve

Didn't we have a flight attendant snapping a couple of weeks ago?


Flight attendant's outburst delays flight - CNN

Have you every worked with the public.... or Steven Williams?



Sherwood

[john70t]

Originally Posted by 911pcars

What if the Captain was justified in his actions and the passengers still subdued and restrained him? I guess you just had to be there.

....because the copilot said "Abu Aklamiani", then locked the Captain out of the cabin with the flight-controls.

[legion]

You do have to give the co-pilot credit for getting the pilot out of the cockpit. I'd love to hear that story.

And after that, the passengers took control of the situation. I still maintain that after 9/11, it will be at least a generation before a U.S. airplane is successfully hijacked.

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by nostatic

The airline would not release the pilot’s name or medical history.

How is that OK? An unsual action suggestive of terrorist activity* occurs and the airline refuses to release the name of the pilot? The pilot's (and airline's) right to privacy trumps national safety?




* OK, so this may not have been a true terrorist act. But that wasn't entirely clear to the passengers at the time, and the extraordinary actions performed by crew (notwithstanding the pilot) and responding passengers were done and allowed because of our post-911 paranoia.

[speeder]

Not a true terrorist act? I'd say that he terrorized the schit out of those passengers.

[Brando]

Seriously, no-one is going to say it?

...N! ?

[slodave]

Originally Posted by Brando

Seriously, no-one is going to say it?

...N! ?

Post number 9, number 9, number 9.

[Heel n Toe]

On NBC News tonight, they reported that the copilot got the pilot out of the cockpit by somehow convincing him to go to the bathroom.

They also reported it was a panic attack... I'm sure we will soon hear he decided to take himself off his psych meds without consulting his doc.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by legion

You do have to give the co-pilot credit for getting the pilot out of the cockpit. I'd love to hear that story.

And after that, the passengers took control of the situation. I still maintain that after 9/11, it will be at least a generation before a U.S. airplane is successfully hijacked.

I found that very interesting. The passengers certainly took action without hesitation. That's a big well done.

The pilot??? Maybe living and working in fear for over a decade finally broke him.

[Scuba Steve]

Originally Posted by RWebb

he said: "I rate both those chicks a solid 10!!!"

Well played, sir!

[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

I found that very interesting. The passengers certainly took action without hesitation. That's a big well done.

The pilot??? Maybe living and working in fear for over a decade finally broke him.

If it only takes a decade, then about 80% of us in the cockpit are well past time! In another 1.5 years will be my 4th decade in the cockpit.

Like someone above mentions, guessing that he has a problem with his medications. Sad to see this happen...