other than the pilots there were four crew members, 144 passengers. is it possible someone other than the pilots could have been involved? it is very possible. we have this armored door leading to the cockpit but i ve spoken with several mechanics for major airlines and we know the front lavatory that s to the left, right of the armored door in the cockpit in the first class section, in jet blue it s at the front of the plane, there is no first class. there s no armor in the head leading to the cockpit from the lavatory. that can be compromised. there are many ways to enter the cockpit when the pilot exits. some people can be acrobatic. there are instances in which it s been a crew member. we had it recently within the last year year and a half. a jet blue captain came out of
carolina, to rome. that plane was forced to land in philly after flight attendants told the captain they smelled something and felt sick. in fact, five crew members were taken to the hospital. and we ve learned the cause of another midair scare. this one hitting home with all of us on the overnight shift, right? the jetblue pilot who went beserk aboard his plane last march may have been suffering from a lack of sleep. with more on this here is abc s jim avila. reporter: jet blue captain clayton osmond looks anything but sleepy during his freak-out on board his flight from new york to las vegas. his eyes wide open as he runs through the cabin yelling about jesus and al qaeda, scaring his passengers and crew until taken down in the island held until his co-pilot landed the plane safely in lubbock, texas. he started to curse at me. telling me, hey, you better pray to iraq and iran.
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finish. we don t know what the vote is going to be. we know this the four liberal judges have made it clear where they stand but you don t know where the conservatives stand. you don t know what kennedy is doing or roberts is doing flat out. you can probably aassume that scalia and alito will go one way but most of the drama is on the right. i bet a dollar it goes down, at least the mandate. nobody wants to bet. even if it s $0.50, i m not betting on this one. you never know. now to your headlines this morning. we re learning alarming new details of what happened inside the cockpit of that jet blue flight between the captain clayton osbon s mid air meltdown. the jet blue captain told his co-pilot things just don t matter and we need to take a leap of faith. we re not going to vegas. and what passengers had to experience outside of the cockpit even more alarming. osbon ranted about september 11th and yelled guys, push it to full throttle . the captain is now charged with