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Phone left in restroom triggers Delta bomb scare

Last updated Monday, April 16, 2012 - 2:22pm

DUBLIN -- A Delta Air Lines flight bound for the United States made an emergency landing Monday in Dublin because a passenger left a cell phone plugged into a socket in one of the aircraft's restrooms, police and aviation authorities said.

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Judge orders psychiatric exam for JetBlue pilot

Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 1:56pm

HOUSTON -- A federal judge in Texas has ordered the JetBlue Airways pilot accused of disrupting a Las Vegas-bound New York flight with rants about religion and terrorists to undergo a psychiatric exam.

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Russian Emergency ministry rescue workers search the site of the ATR-72 plane crash outside Tyumen, a major regional center in Siberia, Russia, Monday, April 2, 2012. A passenger plane crashed in Siberia shortly after take-off on Monday morning, killing 31 of the 43 people aboard, Russian emergency officials said, with 12 survivors were hospitalized in serious condition. The ATR-72, a French-Italian-made twin-engine turboprop, operated by UTair was flying from Tyumen to the oil town of Surgut with 39 passengers and four crew. (AP Photo/Marat Gubaydullin)

Plane crash in Siberia kills 31

Lynn Berry The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 2, 2012 - 9:40am

MOSCOW -- A passenger plane crashed in Siberia shortly after taking off Monday morning, killing 31 of the 43 people on board, Russian emergency officials said. The 12 survivors were hospitalized in serious condition.

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Emergency workers tend to a JetBlue captain that had a "medical situation" during a Las Vegas-bound flight from JFK International airport, Tuesday, March 27, 2012, in Amarillo, Texas. Passengers said the pilot screamed that Iraq or Afghanistan had planted a bomb on the flight, was locked out of the cockpit, and then tackled and restrained by passengers. The pilot who subsequently took command of the aircraft elected to land in Amarillo at about 10 a.m., JetBlue Airways said in a statement. (AP Photo/Steve Douglas)

Friends baffled by JetBlue pilot's unraveling

Paul J. Weber, Russ Bynum The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 11:00am

RICHMOND HILL, Ga. -- No one recalls JetBlue Airways captain Clayton Osbon coming unhinged before. Not the airline that let him fly for 12 years, the neighbors in his secluded waterfront community or the friends he tried selling weight-loss shakes to on the side.

Now federal prosecutors have charged Osbon following his bizarre unraveling aboard Flight 191 to Las Vegas, describing in court records a midair breakdown they say began with cockpit ramblings about religion and ended with passengers wrestling him to the cabin floor.

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Pilot’s meltdown puts spotlight on high-stress work environments

Diane Stafford Kansas City Star

Last updated Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 7:10am

After a few workplace violence events in mail centers, "going postal" entered the lexicon.

This week, thanks to a widely shared newspaper headline about the in-flight meltdown of a JetBlue pilot, we got, "This is your captain freaking."

Though not particularly fair or nice, the shorthand descriptions of workplace outbursts are here to stay.

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JetBlue captain restrained mid-flight after yelling about a bomb

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 1:36pm

AMARILLO, Texas -- A JetBlue flight bound for Las Vegas landed unexpectedly in Texas on Tuesday after the captain was taken ill, the airline said. A passenger said a man she and other passengers believed was the captain began yelling about a bomb and had to be restrained.

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David Alan Anderson entered a guilty plea to a single count of possessing a dangerous weapon Thursday in Salt Lake City.

Guilty plea in Utah airplane knife smuggling case

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 3:50pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah man accused of smuggling a knife onto an airplane and threatening to kill police has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge in federal court.

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