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| Former NYC DOC officer subdues JetBlue pilot |
| By travel.usatoday.com - Bart Jansen, USA TODAY |
| Published: 03/28/2012 |
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It was an extraordinarily rare incident in the air — and a frightening one for passengers: A JetBlue captain was locked out of the cockpit and wrestled to the floor by passengers after screaming about a bomb during a flight from New York to Las Vegas. "The captain had exited the cockpit during the flight, after which the co-pilot locked the door," said Brie Sachse, an FAA spokeswoman. "When the captain attempted to enter the locked cockpit, he was subdued by passengers." Tony Antolino, a security executive from Rye, N.Y., realized something was wrong on the flight when the captain left the cockpit and starting walking erratically through the cabin, drinking water and becoming agitated. Antolino, 40, says he and several other passengers realized they needed to subdue him after the co-pilot locked the captain out of the cockpit. The captain started yelling about Iraq and Afghanistan, then told passengers to start reciting the Lord's prayer. "That's when everybody just tackled him and took him down," says Antolino, an executive with a security firm headed to an industry conference. "We just physically stood on top of him until the flight was diverted and we landed in Amarillo." Although flight attendants have had outbursts and had to be restrained, it's extraordinarily rare for a pilot. The incident raises questions about pilots' mental and physical fitness as well as passengers' safety when a captain and first officer are behind locked and hardened cockpit doors. Tom Murphy, another passenger, told CNN the flight attendants tried to take the captain to the back of the plane, but he broke free and ran to the front, threatening to blow up the plane and saying there was a bomb on board. "He started screaming about al-Qaeda and possibly a bomb on the plane and Iraq and Iran and about how we were all going down," Gabriel Schonzeit of New York City, who was seated in the third row, told the Amarillo Globe-News. "It seemed like he went crazy." Heidi Karg, another passenger on the flight, told CNN that the man was shouting, "I need the code! Gimme the code! I need to get in there!" "We heard the word 'bomb,'" Karg said. "We didn't know exactly what was going on." Several passengers wrestled the captain to the floor. David Gonzalez, 50, a former New York City Department of Corrections officer, told ABC News he put the captain in a choke hold. Read More. |
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