reporter: the family of the jetblue co-pilot credited of taking control during a midair incident says jason dowd doesn't want to be called a hero. court documents reveal he diffused the situation when flight 191 pilot clayton osbon become increasingly incoherent. the co-pilot's father-in-law says he's not surprised that dowd knew what to do. >> he's a great guy. i think he's probably one of the best son-in-laws i could have. i mean, give you the shirt off his back if you want it. >> reporter: investigators say he got osbon out of the cockpit, locked the door and took command. passengers say the pilot started yelling and ran up and down the aisle. dowd called an off duty pilot into the cockpit and asked passengers to restrain the captain. together they requested an emergency landing. >> jetblue 191 declared emergency. >> jetblue, we have to go into amarillo, declare an emergency at this time. >> reporter: the fbi will review the cockpit voice recorder to try to learn more about how events unfolded. investigators have also interviewed dowd. he hasn't been back to his ohio home, but he did let his

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managers are new debriefing jason dowd, they say he locked the captain out of the cockpit after he started ranting about iraq and a bomb. he then brought an off-duty pilot into the cock put to help make an emergency landing in texas. right now osman is charged with interfering with a flight consumer. >> in the sciewrp watch a major recall from honda, they are recalling more than 550,000 crv and pilot suvs because the low people headlights can fail. they will fix it at no cost. affected vehicles include the 2002 through 2004 crvs and the 2003 pilots, no accidents have been reported as a result f defect. owners will get recall noises in the mail starting in late april. >> still ahead on wjz eyewitness news at noon, it is friday. and looking ahead to our weekend find out what is in store for us weather-wise. your full first warning weather forecast is two and 1/2 minutes away. >> but first let's take a look at today's midday stocks followed by last night's multimatch numbers. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> talking about the cheese we put on our dog's food. you put cheese -- >> yeah -- >> -i -- i put

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jason dowd was the co-pilot of jetblue flight 191. went out of control in the cockpit in mid air and he safely landed the plane. >> jon miller has dowd's story and the latest on that bizarre incident in the cockpit. >> as clayton osbon began to discuss religion and then strangely rattled through numerical combinations of radio frequencies, his co-pilot was thinking about how to get his captain out of the cockpit without a fight and now we know more about the guy called a hero in this story. jason dowd told his family he didn't think of himself as a hero but many believe he diff e diffused a situation when he locked his co-pilot out of the cockpit. >> we're going to have to go into amarillo. >> reporter: in salem, ohio, dowd's hometown, his father in law was not surprised that jason was cool under pressure. >> he's a great guy. headquarters thursday where company officials were assessing their needs following a very stressful situation. >> relax, relax. >> reporter: meanwhile at northwest texas hospital in amarillo, clayton osbon's psy

reporter: the family of a jet blue copilot, credited with taking control of a midair incident, says jason dowd doesn't want to be called a hero. court documents reveal he diffused the situation, when pilot jason osbun became increasingly incoherent. the copilot's father-in-law says he is not surprised doud knew what to do. >> he is a great guy. probably the best son-in-law i could have. give you the shirt off his back if you want it. >> reporter: investigators say he got osbun out of the cockpit, locked the doors and took command. passengers say osbun then started yelling up and down the aisles. doud then asked passengers to restrain the captain. together, the crew requested an emergency landing. >> jet blue 191, declaring emergency. >> we're going to have to go into amarillo to declare an emergency at this time. >> reporter: the fbi will review the plane's cockpit voice recorder to learn more about how events unfolded. investigators have also interviewed doud. >> reporter: he hasn't been back to his ohio home since the flight but he did call his family to let them know he was safe. >> he call

the airline says jason dowd locked the pilot out of the cockpit after he started ranting. he then asked the flight attend ants and passengers to subdue him while he brought an off- duty pilot into the cockpit to help him make an emergency landing in amarillo, texas. his family says they are not surprised. >> probably one of the best son- in-laws i could have. give you the shirt off his back if you want it. he is the nicest person. >> as of this morning he is charged with interfering with a flight crew but other charges could be added. >>> they still don't know what caused this fire. the flames consumed that, spreadic to the homes on either side. firefighters say nobody was injured but a lot of damage was done. >>> anne arundel county's deputy fire chief will speak to the county council about the abuse of power scandal surrounding the county executive. he said he will, that comes after he appeared and refused to answer most of the questions about john leopold, who is accused of that. >>> a new study reveals an alarming jump in the number of cases of autism and it is especia

. >> reporter: jason wesley dowd was the man in the copilot's seat of jetblue 191 when it took off from new york tuesday bound for las vegas. when the flight made an emergency landing three and a half hours later in amarillo, texas, dowd was being hailed as a he a hero. the cool-thinking first officer, who seized command when captain clayton osbon suffered a midair meltdown. dowd's father-in-law said the family was proud but not surprised. >> he's a great guy. i think he's probably one of the best son-in-laws i could have. i mean, give you the shirt off his back if you want it. >> reporter: dowd managed to get osbon out of the cockpit after the captain began talking incoherently and t incoherently and turning off the jet's radios. once osbon left the flight deck, dowd called an off-duty pilot to help in the cockpit, lock the door, and urged passengers to restrain the troubled captain. th then dowd and the off-duty pilot both radioed for help. >> reporter: we're not sure which of those voices belongs to dowd. we can tell you he's talked to the f.b.i. and is expected to soon return to his

then you will hear what captain clayton osbon was saying to his first officer jason dowd. we know some of these details from the charging papers after osbon was charged federally for interfering with a flight crew but it's important to note that we'll actually probably only know or we may not know investigators will know what's on the last two hours of that cockpit voice recorder. it will record up to the point where the plane landed and time it two hours back from that. we may not get those initial indications of what was going on with osbon but you will hear or authorities will hear the last two hours of what happened in the cockpit. >> i'm just curious. i can't remember this detail. i know that this pilot told the air traffic controllers to be quiet or to shut up. when did that happen? before the plane took off or while the plane was in flight? >> that happened in flight. that sort of happened about 3 1/2 hours into the flight. essentially before they had him removed from the cockpit. the first officer we know was trying to get osbon out of the cockpit but then he got u

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