Well now we know more about the incident and where and how it started if this report is correct.
It seems he showed up late to work, missed the pre-flight briefing and was incoherent prior to takeoff.
Well I hope they do find the problem for his sake. A breakdown of some sort sure seems to be a logical conclusion at this stage. Hope he get well soon.
I can't believe they have actually charged him of a criminal act without actually knowing what the cause of the problem was for his behavior.
Kudos to the FO and the rest of the crew for an uneventful ending.
As for politics now being involved on the tread it is to be expected in America because both sides cannot leave it alone.
Link to article...
U.S. charges screaming, incoherent JetBlue pilot - Yahoo! News Canada
Some quotes from the article...
An affidavit by an FBI agent shows that trouble for the flight started before the Airbus A320 took off from New York City's LaGuardia Airport. Osbon was late arriving at the airport, and missed the routine pre-flight crew briefing, agent John Whitworth said in the affidavit.
Whitworth said problems continued as the Airbus A320 was taking off.
"Osbon talked about his church and needed to focus," Whitworth said in the affidavit. "Osbon began talking about religion, but his statements were not coherent."
The rest of the flight crew began to get nervous when Osbon told them that "things just don't matter" and began yelling over the plane's radio system, telling air traffic controllers to "be quiet," according to Whitworth's account in the affidavit. "The First Officer became really worried when Osbon said, ‘We need to take a leap of faith'," Whitworth said in the document. "Osbon started trying to correlate completely unrelated numbers and he talked about the sins in Las Vegas. At one point, Osbon told the (first officer), ‘We're not going to Vegas,' and began giving what was described as a sermon."