Fracas on JetBlue Flight Shows Gap in Screening
New York Times, 28 March 2012
Airplane cockpits are meant to be the last line of defense from outside aggressors. But what if the threat comes from the cockpit itself? On Tuesday, a JetBlue pilot who was behaving erratically was physically restrained by passengers after his co-pilot locked him out of the cockpit. With chaos in the cabin, the plane, flying from New York to Las Vegas, was forced to make an emergency landing in Amarillo, Tex.