Get away from me.' Then I started telling people that I'm not getting off the plane. He recalled, "I told the stewardess, 'I don't want any food. Five minutes after the plane had taken off, Wilson placed a pillow over his face and began crying and shouting. concert tour, but while on a flight from Los Angeles to Houston, suffered his first nervous breakdown. On December 23, 1964, 22-year-old musician Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was to accompany his bandmates on a two-week U.S.Another early documented case involved a flight in Alaska in 1950.