Posted on 01/08/2010 1:25:46 PM PST by STARWISE
Neil Cavuto just read news crossing the wire.
Two fighter jets were launched by NORAD from Tyndall AFB in FL due to an issue with an unruly passenger on an Air Tran flight from Atlanta to San Francisco.
Hopefully, more follows soon.
Plane has landed at Colorado Springs airport.
A young man was taken into custody after the flight was diverted.
The man was thought to be intoxicated and locked himself in the bathroom.
The crew radioed the situation, and the fighters were launched.
Everyone's safe on the flight .. the passenger is in custody.
How drunk do you have to be to want to lock yourself in an airplane bathroom?
at least you wouldn’t get lost.
They should have pressed “FLUSH” from the cockpit.
Awful lot of this stuff going on lately...
how long would it take a jet from Tyndel AFB to intercept a plane out of Atlanta?
Okay, now if this guy is shown to be a young
islamic or convert, I’m starting to get nervous
that these are diversions to keep us off guard
for their coup de gras:
a bomb parachuted into the Super Bowl, suicide
or diaper bomber in a huge mall or theater, truck
bomb into a govt building, etc.
Dear Lord, protect and save us.
LOL!
This "morning after" is going to be a little tougher than before...
How close is Tyndall to this flight? There’s nothing that can scramble a jet there that’s closer?
Obama: “NORAD acted stupidly.”
mmm-mmm-mmmm
comes from experience. Unfortunately.
My first thought was damn Al q must be laighing themselves silly at our over reaction
THEN it dawned on me, we the people are staying vigilant and through that vigilance are stopping crazed muslims from killing us plus getting crazed idiots arrested for behavior that previously would have gone unchecked.
I see this as a win win
However I would like to see who this drunk was before we decide it wasn’t terror related.
I do not believe that Nigerian who was supposedly only sick was not another test.
“how long would it take a jet from Tyndel AFB to intercept a plane out of Atlanta?”
Exactly what I was thinking! You sure some TSA Agent wasn’t planning the intercept?
Breathalyzers before flying and no more in-flight drinks.
Breathalyzers before flying and no more in-flight drinks.
Same goes for the passengers too.
(Colorado Springs, CO) — An apparent drunk passenger on an Atlanta-to-San Francisco flight was arrested today after he locked himself in the airplane’s bathroom.
The incident happened on AirTrans Flight 39, forcing the pilot to divert to Colorado Springs.
Airport officials there say the man was then taken off the plane by police and detained.
The unruly passenger has not been identified.
The flight is expected to depart en route to San Francisco as soon as the investigation is wrapped up.
http://mystateline.com/content/fulltext/?cid=127772
That’s where we’re going...
I’m watching Cavuto also.
First two questions:
WHY was the passenger allowed to board the aircraft DRUNK?
If passenger was sober when he boarded, why was he served the quantity of beverages that allowed him to become DRUNK?
Clearly, the new “standing orders” are to NOT allow a jetliner to be crashed over a populated area.
That’s all a fighter jet can do: control the crash location.
Maybe he got lost.
The administration knows they have to get tough, but owing to PC orthodoxy, they must demonstrate that the new toughness is not ethnicity-dependent. For this reason, I get the feeling this guy is just some 4H’er having a reallllly bad day.
Just watch —it’s a surfer, mormon, or Future Farmers of America type.
I don’t think we know where they were
on the flight path at the point of
‘the escort’ down to Colorado Springs.
If this just turns out to be a drunk, as opposed to a test run, I would like the guy to get the bill for the jet fuel used by the fighters as a fine. Put the fear of God and the gas man into the next guy who decides to have a few on the plane.
Thank you.
Ditto that!
ROTF!
I hope they check to make sure he was actually drunk and not having a diabetic episode. I have a Type-1 diabetic friend who nearly died when she got arrested by police for suspected drunkenness when she was actually having a serious blood sugar problem (I think it was low). Slurring, stumbling etc. She nearly ended up in a coma.
I have no sympathy for drunk, unruly, or muzzie flyers but after what happened to my friend I do hope they check out the blood sugar issue.
LQ
This why I Always have a roll of Duct Tape in my carryon...
Yeah .. what you said.
Does anyone remember the name of this years old
‘B’ movie about terrorists with bombs surgically
implanted in their bodies that they set off by
banging their wrists together?
Thanks .. ;)
I’m ‘on board’ with your thinking, but I also want to know exactly how he managed to get “drunk” and his exact alchohol reading/measurement.
Airtran Flt 39.
That’s the same flight number of the unruly passenger incident Wed., a Hawaiian Airlines flight out of Portland to Maui. Fighter jets were scrambled for that one too.
Or a shoelace or belt ...
That happened to my Dad years ago. He begged the police for a cube of sugar. They finally gave it to him. When they realized what had happened, they took him to a hospital.
Yes, I just posted to someone else that I want to know exactly how he managed to get “drunk” and also to learn the exact reading of his alcohol content in his blood.
I hadn’t thought about a diabetic episode! You’re sure right about that!!!!
What an exercise in futility. What are they going to do...shoot the damn thing down or FORCE it to land. As both an ex AF fighter jock and as a retired airline captain having a fighter on your wing adds nothing to safety and enhances the possibility of tragedy.
Tyndall is up in the panhandle. I assume the plane was farther West than Atlanta. Not that far plus Tyndall has a couple of squadrons of F-22’s.
NewsChannel 7 has learned a large group of students from the Spartanburg High Student Council was on a plane that made an emergency landing in Colorado Springs this afternoon because of unruly passenger. The passengers are now off the plane, some being interviewed by the FBI, according to school officials.
The spokeman at the airport in Colorado Springs says AirTran flight 39 was en route from Atlanta to San Francisco when an intoxicated man on board became arguementative (sic)and locked himself in the bathroom.
Students onboard the flight told NewsChannel 7, flight crews blocked the cockpit with food carts, and restrained the man.
The Captain announced an emergency landing, bringing the plane down.
Once on the ground, students say police rushed the plane, “taking the man to the ground” according to one student, before pulling him off the plane.
The FBI will be investigating the incident. Its not clear yet if the same plane will take off or passengers will leave on another one.
http://tinyurl.com/yzu796v
Hmmmm ...
I predict this will lead to a declaration of no booze on airplanes which will require me to switch to heroin or massive quantities of Xanax.
I always have a bundle of 11 inch black zip ties in my flight bag. They come in very handy and dont alarm the TSA.
If some schmuck gets disruptive we can always zip tie his/her butt to a seat. Can also use them for deep wounds to constrict bleeding.
In years past, “body bombs” have been relegated to horror movies, like “Are You Scared” and “The Dark Knight,” which both featured bombs surgically inserted into torsos. But they played a central role in an attack earlier this year when a terrorist tied to al-Qaida attempted to kill a Saudi prince with a bomb hidden inside his rectum.
Though the world has yet to see a wave of attacks of this sort, some commentators said it pointed to a dangerous new trend.
Well ... sure doesn’t sound
like it was a calm incident.
Thanks.
I don’t know if it was just the musings of the anchorette or true.
But it was mentioned on Fox that the little pantybomber when asked by the judge about the drugs said he understood.
so is the defense going to be that anything he said to FBI is not to be admitted because of the pain meds he got for his burned franks and beans.
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