Clayton Osborn, the Jet Blue captain who ran up and down the aisles screaming about Al Qaeda Tuesday before passengers wrestled him to the ground has been charged with "interfering with a flight crew," a crime with a potentially weighty repercussions.
The story of the JetBlue flight from New York that got diverted to an emergency landing in Texas is especially scary since it was grounded after the captain flipped out and needed to be subdued by passengers. But what, exactly, the captain said seems to be in dispute based on press reports.
Los Angeles commuters snap up dirt cheap JetBlue tickets to bypass gridlock
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