An air hostess helped land a jet carrying 146 passengers after the co-pilot had an apparent mental breakdown over the Atlantic Ocean, investigators revealed today.

DUBLIN, Ireland - An Air Canada pilot handled his co-pilot's mental breakdown professionally and made a smooth landing in Ireland with the emergency help of a pilot-licensed stewardess, the official Irish report into the January emergency concluded Wednesday.

An Air Canada co-pilot having a mental breakdown had to be forcibly removed from the cockpit, restrained and sedated, and a stewardess with flying skills helped the pilot safely make an emergency landing, an Irish investigation concluded Wednesday.