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JetBlue pilot found not guilty due to insanity
Posted: 07.04.2012 at 1:54 PM
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In this file photo, JetBlue pilot Clayton Frederick Osbon, right, is escorted to a waiting vehicle by FBI agents as he is released from The Pavilion at Northwest Texas Hospital, in Amarillo, Texas.  / AP Photo/Amarillo Globe-News, Michael Schumacher
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A JetBlue Airways pilot who left the cockpit during a flight and screamed about religion and terrorists has been found not guilty by reason of insanity, and a federal judge ordered him sent to a mental health facility for further examination.

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