[UPDATED INFO BELOW] A Northwest Airlines jet was met by police at Detroit, Michigan’s airport after its flight crew reported a “verbally disruptive” passenger Sunday, two days after an alleged attempt to bomb the same flight, aviation officials said.
The passenger spent about an hour in the bathroom and got upset when he was questioned by the crew of the flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands. Law enforcement agents were questioning the man Sunday.
The jet had the same designation – Flight 253 – as the one on which a Nigerian man is accused of attempting to set off an explosive device Friday.
Scott Wintner, a spokesman for the Wayne County Airport Authority told CNN the flight “requested emergency assistance and was pulled aside upon arrival in Detroit.”
The jet was taken a long distance from the terminal and “completely engulfed” by emergency vehicles and heavily armed police once it landed, said Don Graham, who was waiting for relatives to arrive at the airport.
The flight arrived about 12:34 p.m., said Susan Elliott, a spokeswoman for Delta Air Lines, which owns Northwest. The 257 passengers were allowed to leave the aircraft about an hour after the jet landed, she said.
UPDATE FROM CBS NEWS: A law enforcement official says the man removed from a Sunday flight to Detroit posed no security risk to the plane. The official says the passenger was taken into custody after becoming verbally disruptive on landing. Subsequent interviews by investigators determined he was a businessman who became ill during the flight.
(Source: CNN)
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Such a silly society. They never learn the real lessons. If terrorist was in the bathroom, every bathroom goer becomes suspicious.
i suppose the real news is that “HaLeiVi” has figured it all out!?! I cant even figure out what in the world you are trying to say? has it become so automatic with people these days to just mock the society because they think they are geniuses?
Why would you comment on something you hadn’t figured out?
congratulations. you missed my point completely. lets try this again.
why are you calling the entire society silly? because you dont agree with the actions of the airline security personels decision? are you so much smarter?
The airline personnel were scared. With these kinds of things many times there are copycats. That’s mamash what the police call it, copycat crimes and nobody should blame them for being frightened. Rather safe than sorry.
#4 remember, haleivi is part of that society so he actually means himself
I think his point is pretty obvious. The people employed to monitor these things are incompetent to an extreme level. They are incapable of spotting a terrorist, and confuse disruptive with deadly. The message is that you can get away with bringing a bomb onto a plane (except, b”H, the Boreh Ha’Olam has other plans) but be darn sure you don’t act “disruptive”. Idiocy.
I do see HaLeivis point. I don’t feel he/she was saying EVERYONE in society is silly. Truth is, we go from being overly trusting…to being excessively suspicious/paranoid!
Anyone who just “looks” off is viewed as a terrorist. The paranoia is becoming frightening. I’m still trying to understand how for 9 years, the FBI, CIA & Scotland Yard can’t find one man hiding in a cave!
Because I knew this was coming. So I guess I am smarter. These people get paid to think up scenarios. Yet, on 911 four airplanes were reported as highjacked, one crashes into a tower, and they tell everybody to stay in the second tower.
Now since the terrorists at the time happened to have used box cutters, now they know that box cutters can be a threat. Nothing to worry about anymore. Oops. Somebody tried to blow up his shoe. Now lets check everybody’s shoes. My my. Let’s just believe in them. They are hired to know better.
I was actually refering to the policy makers as a society. A society means a group of people. I wanted to write fast, so I wrote it like that. In general I see the American government as intelligent and foolish.
HaLeiVi, it goes back to my point. Start profiling the Muslims because of all of the terrorist organizations that I can think of not one is anything else but Muslim!
But, they won’t.
Democracy has its faults. With this new age of terrorism democracy must be redefined. With America being the superpower that it is it seems that it can get away with a strict ban on racial profiling for terrorists but if anything slightly damages its delicate. infrastructure the people will clamour for the authorities to get the job done efficiently.
I think that the worst part of this whole thing is the Jews arguing on this comment forum. Do a Mitzvah i.e. lets accept upon ourselves V’Ahavta L’Reacha Camocha.
Am Yisrael Hai!
Let’s be clear. A passenger needing to use the bathroom for an hour of time, versus someone trying to set off an explosive device – we are talking about two entirely different kinds of explosions and threat to passengers.