David K. Li is a senior breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.
A student pilot tried getting into the cockpit of a cross-country flight to Dulles, Va., telling crew members he was merely 'testing them' with this dangerous stunt, authorities said. Nathan Jones, 19, was aboard Alaska Airlines Flight 322 from San Diego to Dulles International Airport on March 3 when he 'made three separate attempts to go to the front of the plane and open the aircraft's cockpit door,' according to an affidavit by Federal Air Marshal Thomas Pattinson.
'I intend to request that the court evaluating him for competency to stand trial.' The defense on Wednesday filed a letter from the jailers in Alexandria, Virginia, who said Jones is on suicide watch while displaying 'incoherent speech, disorganized behavior, mood lability and appears to be experiencing psychosis.
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