Posted on 03/27/2012 12:29:01 PM PDT by socal_parrot
A JetBlue plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Amarillo, Texas, Tuesday after a pilot reportedly had a medical emergency on board the plane.
JetBlue 191, which was headed from New York’s Kennedy Airport to Las Vegas, was forced to make the emergency landing after the pilot reportedly ran up and down the aisles screaming after being locked out of the cockpit.
He apparently began banging on the cockpit door screaming “let me in,” but was not allowed to reenter, CBSDFW.com reported.
One of the flight attendants 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.
“He picked the wrong plane. Huge guys just tackled him. The response was Olympics kind of stuff,” one passenger said, according to CBSDFW.com
A passenger says a man she thinks was the captain was yelling about a bomb.
Heidi Karg told CNN there was a lot of commotion and that she heard him shout the word "bomb."
JetBlue says an off-duty captain and passenger went to the flight deck and took over the duties of the ill captain "once on the ground." JetBlue says the ill captain was taken to a medical facility.
The airline says the passengers are awaiting another plane to take them on to their destination.
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.
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A medical facility? What is it?
does the captain have a name and can it be pronounced by your average American?
I would have loved to have seen the looks on the passenger's faces. Hoo boy.
Let me put it to you this way. The collective pucker factor likely negated the need for seat-belts...
The question unasked is:By what authority did the co-pilot
lock the Captain out of the flight deck ?Is this Mutiny ?
Existential dilemma of the Easter Season.
Looks like he picked the wrong week to give up quaaludes.
ROFLOL!
Sounds the world to me, like someone slipped acid into this guys 5 hour energy drink...
Does she have any children? I dont think she has any.
It would be even nicer to see her again.
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