US Charges JetBlue Pilot for Midair Meltdown

CNBC Thursday 29th March, 2012

U.S. authorities filed criminal charges on Wednesday against a JetBlue Airways pilot who witnesses said yelled incoherently about religion and the 2001 hijack attacks and pounded on a locked cockpit door before passengers subdued him in a midair uproar.


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