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JetBlue Pilot Who Screamed Religious Rants To
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April 2, 2015 - Clayton Osbon, an ex-JetBlue
pilot is suing the carrier for their failure in
preventing him from acting as pilot in command
onboard Flight 191 out of John F. Kennedy (JFK)
Airport, for Las Vegas, Nevada.
On March 27, 2012, Captain Osbon had a nervous
breakdown while in-flight, in one of his
incidents Osbon ran down the aisle of the
airplane stating to the passengers “Pray f***ing
now for Jesus Christ […] this plane will never
make it to Vegas.” Osbon
is
suing JetBlue for $14.9 million
for damages and remedies based upon what he
believes to be a breach of contract and
negligence.
Captain Osbon graduated from Nathaniel Hawthorne
College in 1987, with a
degree in aeronautical physics. He received his
pilot's license in 1985 and in 1987 captained a
commercial plane. Osbon gained employment with
JetBlue as a Captain in 2004 until March 27,
2012 when he was placed on medical leave, Osbon
primarily flew the Airbus aircraft while with
JetBlue.
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Prior to the incident on Flight 191, Osbon
maintained a completely clean pilot's license
and medical certificate and was viewed as
exemplary employee at JetBlue. Court
records indicate, unknown to Osbon, he had
suffered a childhood head injury to his brain in
which he had recovered from when he was a child.
However, an unknown brain damage remained
without Osbon knowing about it, and was
completely asymptomatic until in or around March
27, 2012, at which time Osbon began to suffer,
"for the first time in his life, a complex
partial brain seizure".
Court records further stated Osbon's seizure
severely impaired his ability to perform basic
activities, causing him to hallucinate, and
caused extreme feelings of paranoia and
religious fervor. "As of March 27, 2012, Captain
Osbon was unaware of his propensity for brain
seizures or his brain damage. On March 27, 2012,
Captain Osbon was also unaware that he was
undergoing a brain seizure".
On March 27, Osbon was to act as pilot in
command Flight 191. Prior to the flight in
accordance with JetBlue's procedures, the flight
crew was scheduled to attend a preflight
briefing at JFK, Osbon failed to attend this
briefing due to his seizure. In court documents
JetBlue made several attempts to reach Osbon
after he failed to report to the preflight
briefing. This was the first time Osbon had
missed a preflight in the 12 years he worked for
JetBlue.
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