A JetBlue flight bound for Las Vegas made an emergency landing in Texas on Tuesday after the captain acted strangely, was locked out of the cockpit by his co-pilot and was wrestled to the ground by passengers, witnesses and authorities said.
The plane's co-pilot, concerned by the 'erratic' behavior, locked the door behind the captain when he left the cockpit during the flight, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
JetBlue Pilot 'Flips Out', Subdued by Passengers.
A JetBlue flight bound for Las Vegas made an emergency landing in Texas on Tuesday after the captain acted strangely, was locked out of the cockpit by his co-pilot and was wrestled to the ground by passengers, witnesses and authorities said.
The plane's co-pilot, concerned by the 'erratic' behavior, locked the door behind the captain when he left the cockpit during the flight, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
JetBlue Pilot 'Flips Out', Subdued by Passengers
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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 fre
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The flight captain raced up the aisle screaming, pounded on the cockpit door and shouted, 'First Iraq, then Afghanistan, now this,' passengers said Tuesday.
More than a half-dozen passengers, many on their way from New York to Las Vegas for a security convention, surged forward and subdued the captain, he said. Airport officials identified the pilot as Clayton Frederick Osbon, of Richmond Hill.
'We all knew in the front rows if he got back in the cockpit, we were going down,' said Gabriel Schonzeit, who witnessed the drama from a third-row seat aboard JetBlue Flight 191, which made an emergency landing at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport at 10:11 a.m.
When the plane touched down, Amarillo police scrambled aboard, apprehended Osbon and transported him to Northwest Texas Hospital, officials said. JetBlue Airways officials said in a statement that the flight captain suffered a medical condition and another pilot who was onboard but not on the crew stepped in to help fly the plane. Airline officials would not elaborate. The FBI is investigating.
Several hours into the flight, passengers said, Osbon emerged from the cockpit, walked into the bathroom at the back of the plane, then sprinted up the aisle, screaming 'Iraq,' 'al-Qaida' and 'terrorism.' He tried to re-enter the cockpit, but his security code appeared to have been changed, Schonzeit said.
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JetBlue Pilot's Outburst Leads to Emergency Landing
Transcript by http://www.newsy.com
BY NATHAN BYRNE
A pilot panics, gets locked out of the cockpit - passengers have to restrain him...
...and all the while - the co-pilot makes an emergency landing. This cell-phone video from YouTube shows the scene in the cabin. Reports from ABC, Al Jazeera and the BBC recap pilot Clayton Osbon's alleged behavior.
' ... in the cockpit, but not flying, begins flipping switches, acting confused. Alarmed, his co-pilot tricks him - sending him to the passenger compartment, locking the cockpit and changing the door's security code.'
'The captain of the plane bangs on the door of the cockpit demanding to be let in. The co-pilot diverted the flight as he refused to let the captain near the controls of the plane.'
'JetBlue 191 emergency and we're going to need authorities and medical to meet us at the airplane.'
A reporter for euronews tells how passengers described the so-called 'erratic behavior.'
REPORTER: ' ... that included shouting about Iraq, Afghanistan and a bomb.'
PASSENGER: 'The commotion erupted and we were running, you know, and the pilot ran down the aisle.'
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