NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 6: Three Jet Blue Airways planes are shown on the tarmac at Kennedy International Airport February 6, 2003 in New York City. The planes feature new ‘Pucci-Esque’$2 1960s style tail graphics. Jet Blue Airways celebrated its third anniversary by unveiling their 38th aircraft featuring the new tail graphics. Jet Blue launched its first flight February 2000 and flew its 10 millionth customer last month. Photo by Stephen Chernin/Getty Images
According to documents filed by his attorneys today, JetBlue pilot Clayton Osbon will plead insanity in federal court. As you may recall, Osbon subjected a plane full of passengers to one of our personal worst nightmares last month, when a midair freakout prompted his co-pilot to lock him out of the cockpit and make an emergency landing. Since then, a grand jury in Lubbock, Texas, has indicted him on charges of “interfering in the operations of a flight crew.” Osbon is currently undergoing psychiatric examinations to determine whether he is fit to stand trial.
