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Passengers recount scare after US pilot outburst (AP)
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle11.asp?xfile=data/international/2012/March/international_March1062.xml§ion=internationalAP)
28 March 2012
Passengers aboard an early morning flight bound from New York to Las Vegas first noticed something wrong when the plane’s top pilot came out of the cockpit, didn’t close the door and tried to force his way into an occupied bathroom.
The JetBlue captain’s co-workers tried to calm him as he became more jittery, coaxing him to the back of the plane while making sure — above all — that he didn’t get back near the plane’s controls.
Then, he sprinted up the cabin’s aisle — ranting about a bomb, screaming ‘They’re going to take us down!’ and urging confused passengers to pray.
‘Nobody knew what to do because he is the captain of the plane,’ said Don Davis, the owner of a Ronkonkoma, New York-based wireless broadband manufacturer who was traveling to Sin City for a security industry conference.
