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JetBlue Flight Forced to Land After Deranged Captain Screamed ‘There’s a Bomb On Board!’
JetBlue Flight 191 had to make an emergency landing today in Texas. The flight was en route to Las Vegas from New York's JFK when a man—allegedly the flight's captain—got out of the restroom "foaming at the mouth" and screaming. (gizmodo.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I am an Airline Captain, and have to absolutely congratulate the First Officer on his superb handling in this incident. It demonstrates how knowledge, experience and personal resolve all come to play when something insane happens like this. Some people think that us pilots are just bus drivers up in the air. But, operating Transport Category aircraft such as this requires hard work and concentration. And, when placed in an emergency situation like this, all you have learned comes to bear.
We should add that system worked. A highly qualified and professional first officer assessed the situation, maintained aircraft control, and took the appropriate action.
Exactly.
have to take off a few points in my mind to the copilot just because of what I learned later in the day. When I first heard the story, I was in awe the copilot was able to bring down the plane on his own (considering even with flight management systems onboard, it's a two-person coordinated effort to agree on the landing briefing including emergency what-ifs, set and verify settings through the descent, approach, landing, taxiing, go through all the various checklists at many stages of approach and landing ,etc). I later saw a story that an off-duty captain helped the copilot to bring down the plane safely so there was two-person coordination after all rather than my awe of a single pilot approac and landing.
are you that guy that played the Beav, in "Leave It To Beaver"? You're obviously not a professional pilot
The FO could have done it by himself if he had to. A popular sim scenario is practicing an un-responsive crewmember. You have to recognize he's incapacitated and get the airplane down. It's not a big deal, just a higher workload for a bit.
Robert, you describe a normal approach and landing. The FO could have done it solo. Having said that, ALWAYS use available resources. Remember the DC-10 at Sioux City, Iowa? They used an off duty pilot to assist. Without his help, they may have not made it to the field. We'll never know. Keep your AWE of the single pilot approach and landing. I would trust all my FO's to be able to do this.