Per FNC -Norad launched 2 fighter jets- Tyndall AFB, unruly passenger Muhammad Abu Tahir (#145)

[Travis McGee]

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.

[Redcloak]

Maybe he got lost.

[Cyber Ninja]

[gaijin]

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.

[STARWISE]

I don’t think we know where they were
on the flight path at the point of
‘the escort’ down to Colorado Springs.

[GonzoGOP]

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.

[STARWISE]

Thank you.

[Marty62]

Ditto that!

[Rebelbase]

ROTF!

[LizardQueen]

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

[Kozak]

This why I Always have a roll of Duct Tape in my carryon...

[STARWISE]

Yeah .. what you said.

[Cyber Ninja]

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?

[STARWISE]

Thanks .. ;)

[onyx]

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.

[Eroteme]

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.

[Doogle]

...is it just US flights that receive fighter escorts when something like this happens? The reason I ask is....we've been told the US knew of the Fruit of Kaboom bomber before it landed, but I don't remember it getting escorted. So either it's just US flights or *tsk tsk* were being lied to again.

[STARWISE]

Or a shoelace or belt ...

[BigEdLB]

Build a big new lock-up near Death Valley CA, 125F in the Summer. Let this dude and the Pantibomber be inmates one and two. Lose all keys to the cells. Pay Sheriff Arpajo $1M / yr to run the place.
Baloney, preferably PORK baloney, for everyone.

[DJ MacWoW]

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.