Joshua Carl Lee Suggs faces a count of interference and attempted interference with flight crew in connection with the April 13 incident, which forced an emergency landing at Eppley Airfield in Omaha.
Kim Schaefer doesn't know what happened after she dropped her son off at Chicago's Midway Airport the morning of April 13.
“I was so fearful over Josh's fear of thunder and lightning and storms. He's had that all his life that I actually went online to track that flight and saw that it had landed in Omaha,” Schaefer said.
Authorities from Eppley Airfield arrested Suggs after he allegedly tried to open the door during flight.
“My child would never do what they're accusing him of in his right mind, and I'm worried about him,” Schaefer said.
In federal court Thursday, Suggs' attorney, James Martin Davis, said his client is on suicide watch and again requested a mental evaluation for him.
"The weather was very bad and the plane was bouncing up and down -- that coupled with his mental state -- and then he somehow was thinking about the Malaysian aircraft and these things came together," Davis said.
Davis said Suggs' mental status has deteriorated over the past few months, based on information from Suggs' mother.
Suggs is expected to undergo a competency evaluation sometime in the next 30 days.
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