Posted on 02/14/2022 10:09:17 AM PST by csvset
KANSAS CITY, Mo — American Airlines flight 1775 had to make an emergency landing at MCI this afternoon. The flight was headed from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. when an unruly passenger tried to cause chaos mid-flight.
According to another passenger on the plane, Mouaz Moustafa, some aboard weren’t initially aware of what was going on.
“A flight attendant comes to the middle of the plane where I am, yells to another flight attendant in the back to turn on the lights. At this time, the plane starts descending very rapidly, I think we reached 5,000 feet per minute,” Moustafa said.
Passengers on the plane started to assume the worst.
“As that’s happening, a lot of people don’t know what’s really going on. I mean, people assume, maybe something happened to the pilot, maybe we’re just literally crashing. So, a lot of people, including me, honestly thought we might, this might be it.”
When those aboard realized what was going on, they acted quickly.
“One of the flight attendants jumps all the way to the back and grabs a coffee pot and walks up to the front,” Moustafa said.
“There’s a man who’s trying to get into the cockpit, and afterwards, also tried to open the door to get out the plane. So, some of the passengers that were very heroic, helped the flight attendant who went to the back and got the coffee pot, came up and kept, sort of, bashing him in the head.”
After the whole situation was over, the plane landed safely at MCI around 2:30 p.m. followed by police and the FBI interviewing passengers. The individual aboard the plane was taken into custody.
Flight attendants should have baseball bats..
Whatever you give the flight attendants will immediately be turned against them.
LA to DC eh? Did the guy look like a congressman referred to as shift (with the f removed).
Guy in big trouble; interfering with the flight crew plus financial since he’ll be fined and have to pay landing fee at MCI which would be around $25,000 plus whatever AL charges him.
After 9/11 it would have been a good idea to allow pilots access to firearms. Store them in a locked safe in the cockpit. Give each pilot a key. The keys must be turned simultaneously, from different spots in the cockpit. Kinda like with missile launches.
Then there’d be no need for combat-ready coffee pots.
A taser would be more effective than a coffee pot.
> A taser would be more effective than a coffee pot. <
Good point. I amend my post #7 to include tasers.
“Flight attendants should have baseball bats..”
Very few people raised in the West could hit someone with a bat. Most likely, they’d threaten with the bat and it would get taken away and used against them. It’s similar to having a gun. If you’re not trained and imbued with the will to use the weapon, then you’ve likely armed your opponent.
Also, your company all the way down to your boss would need to establish they’re behind you and that’s even less likely because of liability. The jump in insurance costs all the way down the employee pyramid would be prohibitive.
BTW, I’m guessing drug use in this instance.
I always ask for a ‘seat belt extender’.
Makes for a pretty good club in this kind of situation.....
A bronze short sword would work too.
I never got over Macho Grande.
Moustafa, Moustafa, Moustafa. Irish, perhaps?
Anybody else notice it’s American Airlines that’s been in the news lately?
They did. A good number of pilots do carry but their not going get involved in a passenger donnybrook. Their firearms are only to protect the cockpit. And rightly so.
Where are John Wick and a No. 2 pencil when you really need them?!?
According to the article the guy tried to get into the cockpit. I know cockpit doors are now reinforced. But I do wonder what kind of reception pilots had planned for him had he succeeded.
Moustafa, Moustafa, Moustafa. Irish, perhaps?
Anybody else notice it’s American Airlines that’s been in the news lately?
But remember when they were constantly testing the airlines?
An ancient, elven blade...
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