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August 16, 2006

BREAKING NEWS In the Current Climate

...rumbling with the flight crew is a bad, BAD idea...

London Flight Diverted Over Disturbance

A flight from London to Washington, D.C. was diverted to Boston Wednesday morning after the pilot declared an emergency because of a passenger disturbance, the airline said.

United Flight 923 with 182 passengers and 12 crew members landed safely at Boston's Logan International Airport, United spokesman Brandon Borrman said.

A Logan spokesman said three passengers had a confrontation with the flight crew. State Police took control of the plane after it landed. All the passengers were being taken off the plane and their carry-on luggage was being checked, said spokesman Phil Orlandella.


...right, Bingley?

UPDATE and bump: More coming out about this.

Fighter jets escorted a diverted London-to-Washington, D.C., flight to Boston's Logan airport Wednesday after a distraught passenger pulled out a screw driver, matches, Vaseline and a note referencing al-Qaida, an airport spokesman said.

United Flight 923 landed safely, Logan airport spokesman.


Hello, heightened security? I'll bet there were a couple other passengers who were "distraught" after that! Hopefully, they got a couple shots at him in, too, ala the thumping Richard Reid got.

Posted by tree hugging sister at August 16, 2006 11:32 AM

Comments

a screw driver, matches, Vaseline and a note referencing al-Qaida

somebody pulls out that crap on my flight and i will make very creative use of those materials, i assure you.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at August 16, 2006 12:56 PM

OH, now they're saying she didn't have a screw driver, was only claustrophobic and had materials 'printed in a foreign language'.

I hope somebody thumped her anyway. People missed connections and had the sh*t scared out of them. Next time, take the Queen Mary.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at August 16, 2006 01:10 PM