New York: A JetBlue flight from New York to Las Vegas made an emergency landing in Texas on Tuesday when a captain was locked out of the cockpit and wrestled to the floor by passengers after screaming about a bomb.
JetBlue said that the captain of Flight 191 had a “medical situation” and that an off-duty captain traveling on the flight entered the cockpit before the landing “and took over the duties of the ill crewmember once on the ground” in Amarillo, USA Today reports.
The crew member was taken off the plane and transported to a medical facility, it added.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that the co-pilot became concerned that the captain was behaving erratically during the flight.
“The pilot ran to the cockpit door, began banging on it and said something to the effect of, ‘We’ve gotta pull the throttle back. We’ve gotta get this plane down,'” a passenger Laurie Dhue to CNN.
“At that point, the two flight attendants tried to subdue him, and then seemingly out of nowhere, about six or seven large guys stormed to the front of the plane and wrestled the captain of the plane down to the ground and had him subdued in a matter of moments. It was really like something out of a movie,” she said.
FAA in coordination with the FBI, the Transportation Security Administration and Amarillo police are investigating the incident.
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