Jet Blue Pilot Goes Nuts Mid-Flight
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What I find odd is this sentence: "He was replaced on the flight deck by an off-duty captain who happened to be on the plane, the airline said." Does that mean the flight didn't have a co-pilot? If so, what the hell would have happened had the other pilot not been a passenger and who booted the pilot out of the cockpit in the first place?
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.
What I find odd is this sentence: "He was replaced on the flight deck by an off-duty captain who happened to be on the plane, the airline said." Does that mean the flight didn't have a co-pilot? If so, what the hell would have happened had the other pilot not been a passenger and who booted the pilot out of the cockpit in the first place?
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He took over the co-pilot's duties. The co-pilot "tricked" the original pilot to get him out of the cock pit. That's how he got locked out. The orignial co-pilot then took over piloting duty and was lucky enough to have a capable co-pilot on board.