Posted on 12/26/2009 10:16:44 AM PST by cornelis
"Suddenly, we hear a bang. It sounded like a firecracker went off," said Jasper Schuringa, a film director who was traveling to the US to visit friends.
"When [it] went off, everybody panicked ... Then someone screamed, Fire! Fire!"
Schuringa, sitting in seat 20J, in the right-most section of the Airbus 330, looked to his left. "I saw smoke rising from a seat ... I didnt hesitate. I just jumped," he said.
Schuringa dove over four passengers to reach Abdul Mutallabs seat. The suspect had a blanket on his lap. "It was smoking and there were flames coming from beneath his legs."
"I searched on his body parts and he had his pants open. He had something strapped to his legs."
The unassuming hero ripped the flaming, molten object which resembled a small, white shampoo bottle off Abdul Mutallabs left leg, near his crotch. He said he put out the fire with his bare hands.
Schuringa yelled for water, and members of the flight crew soon appeared with fire extinguishers. Then, he said, he hauled the suspect out of the seat.
"I took him in a choke to the first class and all the people were like, Whats going on?!"
"I dont feel like a hero," Schuringa told the Post as he recuperated with pals. "It was something that came completely natural ... It was something where I had to do something or it was too late."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Expect charges to be brought in the World Court....Holder will prosecute this heinous attack on a moslem to the fullest...
If I was on the plane when this happened and I was lucky enough to get my hands on him, I swear I would make every humanly possible effort to literally rip his head from his shoulders.
Why do the girls always go for the good-looking hero types? Sheesh. :-)
He will need a good lawyer before this is over.
:-)
Is there a photo?
Steel yourself and prepare. . .
Attention passengers: Always be ready to fight the bad guy!
Way to go, Mr. Dutch guy. You have courage and common sense.
"One passenger, Jasper Schuringa, who was the first on the plane to tackle and subdue the suspect, "I basically reacted directly. when you hear a pop on the plane, you are awake. I just jumped. I didn't think, I just went over there and tried to save the plane and we did."
Mr Schuringa, who had burns to one of his hands, added: "A fire started under his seat. I was calling for water, water. But then the fire was getting a little worse. So I grabbed the suspect out of the seat, because, if there was any more explosives on him, that would have been very dangerous. And then the flight attendants came. We took him to first class and stripped him to make sure he had no more weapons on him. . . Mr Schuringa also said that when he first grabbed the suspect he saw a burning liquid dripping on to the floor.
The high explosive Abdulmutallab used was identified by the FBI as Pentaerythritol, better known as PETN a major component of Semtex. He injected a detonating liquid into the PETN with a syringe, but the bomb failed to explode."
Time to ramp up the profiling!
Thanks.
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