Flying Crazy

You may recall the story back in March when a JetBlue pilot went batshit in midair.  He went running up and down the aisle raving like a lunatic about Jesus and Al Qaeda, terrifying the passengers and crew alike.

Well, Clayton Osbon has been found to be insane so he's not guilty of interfering with a flight crew.

Which raises an interesting question.  Can people lose their sanity in a matter of seconds?

Here was a man, a pilot, with a huge responsibility and during a routine flight he just lost his shit?

Is it possible that this can happen without any warning signs whatsoever?

If so, the world is scarier than we thought it was.

Really Wild Blue Yonder

Just what every airline passenger wants -- a member of the flight crew losing his shit in mid-flight.

This time it was the pilot of a JetBlue flight traveling from New York to Las Vegas who went crazy in the middle of the trip.

Seems he got up to go the bathroom in mid-lunacy and the co-pilot locked him out of the cockpit. The pilot then proceeded to run up and down the aisle screaming about Al Qaeda, bombs and terrorists and advised the passengers to "say your prayers."

A flight attendant got on the PA and instructed the passengers to "restrain him." Fortunately there were quite a few burly dudes who did just that and sat on him till the plane made an emergency landing in Amarillo, Texas.

A couple of weeks ago it was a flight attendant who went batshit and now a pilot?

He was taken off the plane with an undisclosed medical condition which sounds like paranoid schizophrenia to us.

Crash Landing

Doesn't this guy look like the airport worker in "Airplane?" Well, it's not because that guy died.

This is a real JetBlue flight attendant by the name of Steven Slater. He blew a gasket yesterday after the flight he was attending landed at Kennedy Airport.

A passenger got up to get his luggage out of the overhead compartment before Steven had given the say-so. They got into a cuss fest when the passenger defiantly continued what he was doing and hit Slater in the head with his luggage.

Next thing you know Steven's on the public address system cursing a JetBlue streak when, in the twinkling of an eye, Slater launched the emergency exit chute and slid down it. He then ran into the parking lot, jumped in his car, and drove away.

He was arrested shortly afterward on charges of reckless endangerment and criminal mischief.

I guess it was just one of those days.

Thanks for the tip, Damon!