Forget the Passengers....Save Us From the Crew !!

Compared to What's Been Going On Lately With Unbalanced Flight Crews, We'd Prefer Having a Captain Ask Us If We've Ever Been In a Turkish Prison...

Ever since 9/11, we've been told to always be wary of dangerous people on mass transportation... While we meet our share of kooks on trains, buses and on the highway, when we're in the air, the biggest threat seems to be not from an Al-Qaeda operative - it's from the crew themselves.  Once again, we had an incident involving a plane's flight crew going frigging berserk, except this time it was in mid-flight.... Oh - and it was the Captain!

Just a few weeks after a flight attendant apparently forgot to take her bi-polar meds, a Captain on a Jet Blue flight from JFK to Las Vegas lost it.. He went so nuts, the co-pilot physically threw him out of the cockpit, and he had to be subdued by two attendants, and eventually bigger passengers.  Now you know why we drive everywhere...

No one knows what set him off, but he was yelling and screaming about Al-Qaeda, Iran, Afghanistan and a bomb.  Once he got tossed from the cockpit, he ran up and down the aisles, telling the passengers it was all over, before he ran back and started banging on the cockpit.  Two flight attendants tried to restrain him, but he then broke loose and tried to open the side door of the plane. Finally, a passenger who was a prison guard eventually got him under control.  Thank God for big guys with no regard fr their own safety...

The flight was diverted from Las Vegas to Amarillo, Texas to drop Captain Kooky off for observation, and then they continued onto Vegas, where they just landed.  No, it doesn't happen often, but lately it's been Unruly Crew 2, Unruly Passengers 0.... Guess Naomi Campbell hasn't been on a plane lately - but we hear they're trying to book her. Cross your fingers....

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