Once again the need for armed sky-marshals on airplanes was witnessed today on an El Al flight from Israel to Bangkok. According to a report by Channel 10 (Israel), a Thai passenger started to scream wildly and approached the cockpit door. Two undercover guards quickly intervened, and restrained the man – placing handcuffs on the man for the duration of the flight. Upon the flights arrival in Bangkok, the man was transferred to the custody of Thai police.
The report did not specify what the man wanted, or what kind of security threat he posed to the flight.
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8 Responses
very good
Good job El-Al!! All planes should have undercover cops.
Perhaps this man just didn’t like the selection of shiurim elal had to offer and wanted to ask the pilot for something more prost.
Its a neis he managed to reach the cockpit with all the minyanim that were probably assembled in the aisles
BYgirl – all planes do have undercover cops. theyre called air marshalls and theyre dressed in plainclothes.
As a travel agent, I would imagine he was screaming because he did not get a bulkhead seat.
house77: to the best of my knowledge US carriers do not have air marshalls on them. (I might be wrong)
to benuri: you are mistaken. Every single US airline has air marshalls on board.
very few american flights do have air marshals. (and you can identify them very easily, if you get a chance to walk around the plane, which as the travel agent said, is hard to do (but required for health reasons , i.e., deep vein thrombosis).
almost all (if not all) elal flights (and i believe all other airlines flying to / from tel aviv, but i really should find out / look into this, meaning other airlines) have their versions of sky marshals. does this apply to israir? good question.
of copurse, the best security is arafat airlines — whoops, sorry, he bnever did start an airline — harder to steal $$$ freom a real bvusiness.