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Hope none of your colleagues ever flips out like this xigaM.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">A JetBlue Airways Corp. JBLU -2.69% flight was diverted Tuesday after the captain was locked out of the cockpit for "erratic behavior," then ran up and down the aisle and banged on the cockpit door before being subdued by passengers, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and accounts from passengers.
JetBlue Flight 191 from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to Las Vegas landed just after 10 a.m. in Amarillo, Texas, where passengers got off the plane and continued the journey on another aircraft.
A JetBlue spokeswoman attributed the incident, which began more than three hours into the flight, to "a medical situation involving the captain." An off-duty JetBlue pilot who was on board took the captain's spot in the cockpit before the plane landed in Amarillo, where the captain was taken to a medical facility, the spokeswoman said.
The FAA said in a statement that the <span style="font-weight: bold">co-pilot locked the captain out of the cockpit after becoming concerned with his behavior. A person familiar with the matter said the captain was attempting to flip switches in the cockpit that shouldn't have been flipped.
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Late Tuesday, JetBlue identified the captain as Clayton Osbon, a 12-year company employee. </div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Anthony Antolino, a 40-year-old security-firm executive from Rye, N.Y., who was one of the 135 passengers on Flight 191, said in a phone interview he watched the captain first emerge from the cockpit acting "very agitated"—talking frenetically, gesturing wildly and drinking a lot of water. "He was having a crisis of sorts," Mr. Antolino said.
After the captain returned to the cockpit, the co-pilot quickly persuaded him to leave again, Mr. Antolino said, allowing the off-duty pilot to slip into the cockpit and lock the door. "This could have had a tragic ending if that co-pilot was not able to persuade him out of the cockpit," Mr. Antolino said. "This unfolded so rapidly. A complete crisis was averted."
Locked out of the cockpit, he became enraged, said Mr. Antolino and another passenger, Grant Heppes, a 22-year-old marketing director from New York who was sitting near the rear of the cabin. Mr. Heppes said he watched the captain run up and down the aisle before hearing banging on the cockpit door, "and the co-pilot came over the loudspeaker saying, 'Do not let him in. Restrain him.' "</div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Mr. Antolino said he and three other male passengers then restrained the captain, whom he described as "a big, strong guy." who "put up a good struggle." During the tussle, the captain shouted that Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan "are going to take us down," Mr. Antolino said. "He had a delusion that something was going to happen. And then he suggested everybody say the Lord's Prayer. Then that was it; we just tackled him."
Mr. Antolino said that after he and the others tied the captain's legs together with seat-belt extenders and sat on him, the captain became quiet for the rest of the flight, which was about 20 minutes.</div></div>
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Hope none of your colleagues ever flips out like this xigaM.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">A JetBlue Airways Corp. JBLU -2.69% flight was diverted Tuesday after the captain was locked out of the cockpit for "erratic behavior," then ran up and down the aisle and banged on the cockpit door before being subdued by passengers, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and accounts from passengers.
JetBlue Flight 191 from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to Las Vegas landed just after 10 a.m. in Amarillo, Texas, where passengers got off the plane and continued the journey on another aircraft.
A JetBlue spokeswoman attributed the incident, which began more than three hours into the flight, to "a medical situation involving the captain." An off-duty JetBlue pilot who was on board took the captain's spot in the cockpit before the plane landed in Amarillo, where the captain was taken to a medical facility, the spokeswoman said.
The FAA said in a statement that the <span style="font-weight: bold">co-pilot locked the captain out of the cockpit after becoming concerned with his behavior. A person familiar with the matter said the captain was attempting to flip switches in the cockpit that shouldn't have been flipped.
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Late Tuesday, JetBlue identified the captain as Clayton Osbon, a 12-year company employee. </div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Anthony Antolino, a 40-year-old security-firm executive from Rye, N.Y., who was one of the 135 passengers on Flight 191, said in a phone interview he watched the captain first emerge from the cockpit acting "very agitated"—talking frenetically, gesturing wildly and drinking a lot of water. "He was having a crisis of sorts," Mr. Antolino said.
After the captain returned to the cockpit, the co-pilot quickly persuaded him to leave again, Mr. Antolino said, allowing the off-duty pilot to slip into the cockpit and lock the door. "This could have had a tragic ending if that co-pilot was not able to persuade him out of the cockpit," Mr. Antolino said. "This unfolded so rapidly. A complete crisis was averted."
Locked out of the cockpit, he became enraged, said Mr. Antolino and another passenger, Grant Heppes, a 22-year-old marketing director from New York who was sitting near the rear of the cabin. Mr. Heppes said he watched the captain run up and down the aisle before hearing banging on the cockpit door, "and the co-pilot came over the loudspeaker saying, 'Do not let him in. Restrain him.' "</div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Mr. Antolino said he and three other male passengers then restrained the captain, whom he described as "a big, strong guy." who "put up a good struggle." During the tussle, the captain shouted that Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan "are going to take us down," Mr. Antolino said. "He had a delusion that something was going to happen. And then he suggested everybody say the Lord's Prayer. Then that was it; we just tackled him."
Mr. Antolino said that after he and the others tied the captain's legs together with seat-belt extenders and sat on him, the captain became quiet for the rest of the flight, which was about 20 minutes.</div></div>
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