BlueJet makes emergency landing as US pilot freaks out

NEW YORK -  A JetBlue pilot freaked out on a flight from New York to Las Vegas Wednesday. Passengers and crew aboard Flight 191 had to overpower Clayton Osbon after his co-pilot noticed his strange behaviour and locked him out of the cockpit by changing the security code. Osbon then began banging on the door and running up and down the aisle. 

The plane was flying at 34,000 feet when Osbon began acting in an erratic and bizarre manner. Fortunately for all who were on board, there was an off-duty JetBlue pilot who was flying as a passenger who diverted the plane to Amarillo, Texas and landed it safely. There was also a retired New York City correction officer on the flight who took charge of events and is now being hailed as a hero.

Osbon was in bad shape after a flight that seemed normal until he walked through the passenger compartment and then ran back to the cockpit door with flight attendants chasing him.

"He started banging on the door, kicking on the door, trying to get inside the cockpit," one passenger said. "He actually started yelling, 'It's going to blow up.'" 

One flight attendant yelled for passengers to restrain him over the public address system, and passengers jumped in. 

"He started to curse at me, started telling me 'Hey, you'd better pray, Iraq and Iran,' a passenger said. "So I said you know what, I'm going to show you where Iraq and Iran is, and I took him in a chokehold."

But the pilot broke through the plastic handcuffs he was put in, and passengers had to use their belts to hold him.

Passenger had to hold down the pilot until the plane landed.

Several passengers had a law enforcement background and were heading to Las Vegas for a convention. 

The outburst came weeks after an American Airlines flight attendant was taken off a plane for rambling about 9/11 and her fears the plane would crash. 

On the American flight, the flight attendant took over the public-address system on a flight bound for Chicago and spoke for 15 minutes about September 11 and the safety of their plane, saying, "I'm not responsible for this plane crashing," according to several passengers.

Passengers wrestled the flight attendant into a seat while the plane was grounded at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. She was hospitalized. 

Then there was the incident involving Steven Slater, a JetBlue flight attendant who grabbed a beer off the cart following a profanity-laced tirade and then launched the emergency chute and jumped off the plane. 

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