Pilot runs up and down plane screaming about bombs and Al-Qaeda!

The restrained pilot

When we travel in any form of transportation, it is important to trust the driver of that vehicle; be it on air, land or sea. We also cannot go about asking drivers, pilots/captains or sailors to present us with a full psychiatry evaluation certificates from their doctors. So, you can imagine the fear the passengers on a US airline felt when the Pilot of the plane they were on started running up an down the aisle screaming about bombs and Al Qaeda. The passengers had to restrain him.

The US airliner, with police talking to flight attendants

Alarmed passengers became aware of the incident when the co-pilot, seemingly worried by his colleague's erratic behaviour, locked him out of his own cockpit when he left to use the toilet.

The captain, Clayton Osbon responded by banging angrily on the flight deck door, before running up and down the aisle screaming "say your prayers".

One of the passengers aboard the plane

The jetBlue plane, en route from New York's JFK airport to Las Vegas, was forced into an emergency landing in Amarillo, Texas. His wife said she had no inkling of his state of mind.

We would have been crapping ourselves if we had been on that plane!