Luftansa Flight News Today

In the security industry, and thats why a lot of those people who actually pinned that person, actually were professionals in being able to handle the situation. jon: people who knew what they were doing. tom murphy a passenger on that flight. thank you for your account. and peter goelz thank you for your expertise. jenna: i want to know what they get. do they get a free flight, some free blue potato chips? well let you know if we find out. the national average for a gallon of gas rising 19 days...

The emergency doors in flight? >> i didnt see him trying to open one of the emergency doors myself, but, you know, what was really the -- there was a lot of miracles that happened in that flight. there was an extra pilot on the plane that the copilot managed to get, you know, into the cockpit, so they managed to get him out of the cockpit, secure the cockpit and get another pilot in. but the real, real tension, and a lot of you are seeing in the video that i shot was that, you know, when he barr...

Supreme court has taken a look at or not, whether social security, civil rights. theres been a lot of calm pa comparisons made. do think of those truly work here? >> the government says they do and the plaintiffs say they dont. they say this is not a tax, congress has broad tax power that gave rise to the social security laws and instead its under the commerce power, its trying to create something that didnt exist before. we dont know the answer whether its the same or different. well find out i...

Typed and the airplane was in decent. and even then they didnt say where we were landing, you know, we were just told, we are making a landing, you know, now, but one of the things, an incident like this looked like it happened in 2008 in a luftansa flight, a pilot had a mental break down and had to be pinned down. it sounded like a duplicate. one of the things, i dont know if it was brought up or not. this flight was to go to las vegas for two trade shows. there were a lot of people on the plan...

Very, very violent, very scary, you know. but the reaction of the people in the plane were fantastic, nobody backed down. everybody was helpful, and, you know -- jon: when you see the pilot banking on the door your first thought must have been that somehow some bad guys com took over the flight. >> for a split second, it was, oh no, someone has control of the plane. this person was clearly looking like they were not -- actually one of the things, he directed a comment towards the people in the c...

Speculating on a motive. the investigation is still going on. back to you. jenna: more as we get it. thank you. jon: we are learning more about exactly what happened on board a jetblue flight diverted because of a pilots bizarre outburst. passengers describe a chaotic scene. the pilot ranting in the aisles about al-qaida, afghanistan and a bomb until finally several passengers restrained him. tom murphy was a passenger on that flight. he joins us now live on the phone. tom, what was your first i...