Jet Blue Pilot Goes Nuts

[3113]

Well, this must have been a fun flight:

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Screaming "They're going to take us down!" a JetBlue pilot stormed through his plane rambling about a bomb and threats from Iraq Tuesday until passengers on the Las Vegas-bound flight tackled him to the ground just outside the cockpit, passengers said.

The captain of JetBlue Airways Flight 191 from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport was taken to a hospital after suffering a "medical situation" on board that forced the co-pilot to take over the plane and land it in Amarillo, Texas, the airline said.

Didn't we recently have a stewardess telling passengers the plane was going to crash or something? What is with those hired by the airlines these days?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Too many hours in the air? Not enough sex?

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Too many hours in the air? Not enough sex?

Not enough sex in the air?

 

[sr71plt]

It does seem to be a building fatigue problem.

 

[jomar]

Yeah, rules may not be being followed.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I am so glad this never happened on any of my flights (though none of my flights were with that company).

 

[R. Richard]

I used to date a couple of airline stewardesses. In the process, I learned something about how airlines operate. (The rest of what I learned, you wouldn't believe.)
An airline crew is not permitted, by FAA regulations to fly beyond certain consecutive hours. (Yes, they are permitted to land the aircraft, even if that requires them to work a bit beyond the consecutive hours limit.) The airline company won't even think about forcing a pilot (or other flight crew) beyond the permitted hours, as it results in really big trouble with the FAA. Fatigue, as such wasn't behind the pilot's problem.
Pilots have been know to show up for work drunk or high on drugs. The rest of the crew will stop them, because of the trouble with the FAA. However, a pilot might show up high on drugs and no one notices.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I'd check the o2 levels in the cockpit...

 

[JackLuis]

Sounds like he'd been listening to talk radio on the way into work.

Quick check his bullshit quanta!

 

[sr71plt]

A general fatique can set in over time. I spent three months trapped in an office building under a "shoot-to-kill" curfew during the 1976 Thai coup while covering the coup from Thai broadcast media, and although we got enough sleep, the prolonged tension and tedium took its toll in general fatigue. I don't think the skies have been too happy since 9/11.

 

[Safe_Bet]

A general fatique can set in over time. I spent three months trapped in an office building under a "shoot-to-kill" curfew during the 1976 Thai coup while covering the coup from Thai broadcast media, and although we got enough sleep, the prolonged tension and tedium took its toll in general fatigue. I don't think the skies have been too happy since 9/11.

Hehehehehehehehe!!!!!!!!!

Was this while you were an international diplomat who flew super secret spy planes on the side or while you were an actual super secret agent who ghost wrote for James Michner on the side????

Hahahahahahaha!!!!! God, you crack me up, dude!

 

[sr71plt]

Hehehehehehehehe!!!!!!!!!

Was this while you were an international diplomat who flew super secret spy planes on the side or while you were an actual super secret agent who ghost wrote for James Michner on the side????

Hahahahahahaha!!!!! God, you crack me up, dude!

No, it was after flying the sr71 but before doing anything with Michner on his books, although I saw him in Bangkok in 1977 and had dinner with him and his wife at the Oriental Hotel. His wife, Mari, had worked with me in Japan.

I do remember your bearded 350-pound bulk driving by our office in your semi a couple of times, though. You seemed to be drooling.

Do you think you're going to win any converts by going around and hijacking all of the threads?

 

[Cruel2BKind]

A general fatique can set in over time. I spent three months trapped in an office building under a "shoot-to-kill" curfew during the 1976 Thai coup while covering the coup from Thai broadcast media, and although we got enough sleep, the prolonged tension and tedium took its toll in general fatigue. I don't think the skies have been too happy since 9/11.

Everybody seems to think that your past is false, and I'm pretty much under that conclusion as well. But even if it's real, it's funny how you bring it up.

You're like my fourteen-year-old sister after she buys new clothes or makeup. She takes a gorgeous picture of herself, and says something on facebook like "Yeah, hi guys, I'm a total mess today" So all of her little toadies can come in and croon how pretty she is.

You're kinda like that. You come in and say, "yeah, XXX is pretty interesting right now, but did I tell you guys about this big war I was in thirty years ago!"

The crooning toadies have yet to comment.

 

[trysail]

People around here know perfectly well that he's a fraud, a hypocrite and a phony. It is amusing and truly wonderful sport to observe the periodic proofs he provides of those facts.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

You know, back in the big one I was a tail-gunner on a blimp over England and let me tell you about...

 

[3113]

Enlightening interview with a doctor on why the Pilot (likely) went nuts.

I'm guessing the doctor is right and the pilot had changed his diet and chemistry in such a way that it lead to this meltdown. I had a friend who went kinda crazy and the reason was that his diet was such that he ended up with a vitamin B deficiency which, as it turns out, can radically alter your mental and emotional state of being.

And the lesson, children, is watch the diet. Eat more chocolate to stay slim and sane!

 

[Loring2]

Call him Walt for short ...

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People around here know perfectly well that he's a fraud, a hypocrite and a phony. It is amusing and truly wonderful sport to observe the periodic proofs he provides of those facts.

Come on now Try.... , let the man be ... just remember, someone had to fly those SR-71s and SR ..... apparently has been of great service to all of us. Leave the man with his dignity and remember also "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty".

Topockita topockita topokita ... as he goes on to a new assignment in the secret world of the nooks and crannies of his mind.

 

[sr71plt]

Ah, one I forgot to put on ignore. Fixed now.

The fun part of all of this is knowing the truth (and a few others here knowing it too) and watching all you no-life people yammer. As if it matters what you think.

It's especially interesting how Safe-Bet Usurper has managed to heighten the hate level in the AH to the level of the GB. With others following her around like sheep.

 

[TE999]

Flight Attendant (as Jet Blue Captain runs down aisle screaming crazily): "There's no cause for alarm, so relax and enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?"

[Borrowed from 'Airplane!']