[mewzilla]

The plane has landed safely?

[The Great Satan]

Your post is offensive to Muslims!

[ShadowAce]

Three people locked in an airplane bathroom? Something tells me this can't be true. There is no room.

[jgrubbs]

Northwest jet diverted to Ft. Smith airport

Updated: September 11, 2002 at 10:25 AM

FORT SMITH - Five News has learned that a Northwest jet has been diverted to the Fort Smith airport.

Fort Smith police say there were reports of three suspicious subjects on board. Witnesses say fire trucks surrounded the plane after it landed.

We have a Five News crew headed to the Fort Smith Airport and will have updates for you on this breaking story as more details become available.

[William McKinley]

Flush!

[Lazamataz]

They must be very tiny Iraqis, then. The kind you can tuck into your pocket.

[Tai_Chung]

Three men in one airplane restroom?

I didn't know that was possible.

[OXENinFLA]

Keep us posted.....

[Overtaxed]

Three mideast types locked in bathroom.

At least they won't be worried about running out of toilet paper.

[the rifleman]

Looks like the onboard militia showed up for duty. And the day has just begun.

[dubyagee]

Now we have an evacuated Walgreen's in breaking news.

My hope is it's all shower material and just paranoia.

[TomGuy]

"We join Mile-High Club, you infidels...now, where's Atta, our goat?"

[Thinkin' Gal]

Breaking- Airliner emergency landing in Ft. Smith Ark. Three mideast types locked in bathroom.

Paging Stefan.

[Benrand]

I ould guess that the concentrated BO that was present in that bathroom, as a ppm measure, would have been enough to melt through the aluminum that comprises the fuselage, both inner and outer skins, right through the bulkhead.

THis type of thing happens all the time on Air Iran and at restaurants in Dearborn, MI.

[Our man in washington]

You think the ragheads tried to hijack the plan, but one of the passengers pulled the old "there's a long line to get into Heaven, so if you have to go, you'd better go now" trick?

[SamAdams76]

Is this serious or a joke? I can't get this story confirmed anywhere.

[Jonah Hex]

Just don't drink the blue water!

Except you, Sinbad, you may drink all you want....

[HAL9000]

Northwest Airlines Plane Diverted To Fort Smith

No Injuries Reported

POSTED: 10:56 a.m. CDT September 11, 2002
UPDATED: 11:09 a.m. CDT September 11, 2002

FORT SMITH, Ark. -- A Northwest Airlines jetliner was diverted to Fort Smith's airport this morning after a report of suspicious activity aboard.

9-11 FS Airport Breaking News

The Associated Press reported that three suspicious passengers were among the 94 people on the plane, which took off from Memphis, Tenn.

Northwest spokeswoman Mary Beth Schubert said Flight 979, an Airbus A-320 bound from Memphis to Las Vegas, departed at 8:45 a.m.

Police and firefighters surrounded the aircraft once on the tarmac at Fort Smith.

No one was injured.

40/29 reported that several streets around the airport were closed.

Information was not immediately available on what action was taken regarding the three questionable passengers.

Copyright 2001 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[polemikos]

Solution:

[Revolting cat!]

It's nothing, after all. It turns out that the three visited Graceland yesterday and consumed a traditional Elvis meal: banana, peanut butter, jelly samwich on white bread. You have to have one to know what it does to your intestines. They're now negotiating for extra toilet paper.