Pilot’s Erratic Behavior Forces Flight to be Diverted

[RJM62]

Apparently this Jet Blue captain has had better days:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/flight-from-kennedy-diverted-after-pilot-becomes-ill/

And a video:

-Rich

 

[Jim Logajan]

Increase the hours required for an ATP, now! Think of the children!

Yeah, I'm thinking of the children, and if they increase the hours required those kids will never get to be ATPs!

 

[Jim Logajan]

Affidavit posted by CNN:
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2012/images/03/28/osbon.complaint.and.affidavit.pdf?hpt=hp_t1

Includes the FBI summary of the Flight Crew statements.

Dang. Wonder what the heck happened in his head?

The results of medical tests would be more informative.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Looks like Clayton Osbon, the pilot in question, and I are 3 links apart on LinkedIn (via Brian Hall, CEO of Airship Ventures.)

What is an "FAA designated Flight Standards Captain Airbus 320 Aircraft"?

 

[Jim Logajan]

Yes this is just a formal step to have an arrest warrant issued. I'd expect that if an underlying medical issue is discovered and there's no malice anywhere, that the US attorney will decline to prosecute, and perhaps even void the arrest.

Why can't they make some of those more serious charges after the medical tests have mostly ruled out physiological problems?

 

[Jim Logajan]

Why? First off you have no idea what information they have from the toxicology reports.

Assuming they even had one, would a clean toxicology report really rule out all, or even most, possible medical causes for his behavior? Particularly if, as has been suggested, he is still exhibiting that behavior?

Point is, I'm still failing to see the point of the rush for the serious charges.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Sorry for this on-topic post, but latest news from AP is that prosecutors want him held without bond:

"A JetBlue Airways captain charged with disrupting a Las Vegas-bound flight after he left the cockpit screaming about religion and terrorists should remain in federal custody without bond, prosecutors told a judge Monday."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=149850095