Passenger tries to storm cockpit on plane from Cardiff

BBC ^ | 01/25/10 | Staff

[Vaquero]

see #40

[stevio]

Since this is Britain, are the passengers going to be prosecuted for restraining him?

[montag813]

Probably just drunk

[The Comedian]

I'll take "It's a Mohammad" for $500, Alex.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Gilbo_3]

no doubt a Jewish guy with a funny box strapped to his head...

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Amish? Swedish?

An angry Lutheran, probably.

let me hazard a guess..............Lithuanian................

Who cares about his national origin or religion...

EMERGENCY, EMERGENCY...SOMEONE READ HIM HIS MIRANDA RIGHTS SO HE CAN LAWYER-UP ASAP!!!

[rdl6989]

He decided that he was on the wrong plane and wanted to change planes.

Do you mean while it was in the air???

[ichabod1]

[ichabod1]

David Hasselhoff?

[ScottinVA]

Muslims need to go through intensive screening and then be made to sit in the back of the Airbus

Actually, they should be duct-taped hand and foot, and placed in very small, individual, double-locked boxes, each labeled "Caution: Dangerous Animal," in the cargo hold.

[avid]

Probably a drunken Brit. This happens remarkably often with flights from Britain. Though, usualy that are flights to Eastern Europe where they go over the weekend for cheap binge drinking.

[toldyou]

I’m a retired flight attendant. Not long before 9/11, a certain family’s travel plans were disrupted due to a mechanical or a cancelled flight prior to boarding my flight.

Attempting to compensate them, United put them in first class....BUT there were only two empty seats available. The father told the mother and child to take the two first class seats; he sat in the second row in coach on an aisle seat.

Apparently the situation bothered him because he wasn’t given a first class seat. Within a minute or so after takeoff, he arose from his seat and began pounding on the cockpit door, “Yelling, I WANT TO SIT IN FIRST CLASS!”

I got up from my jumpseat and escorted him back to his seat. I calmed him down, but he was still upset that he wasn’t sitting in first class.

If that happened today, he would have been wrestled to the floor and cuffed!

Upon landing, the customer service rep took a report from the captain and me. She said this guy would be put on United’s “Do Not Fly” list.

[randog]

Sure seems to be a lot of these events nowdays.

Predators tend to stalk the weak. We now have a policy of giving these predators 3 hots and a cot (and a lawyer, to boot), whereas we used to blow them into a fine pink mist before, or throw them into a cage and drill them for intel. Kinda scary to know that I'm on the front line on the war on terror whenever I get on a commercial plane, but ya' know what? I up for it.

[ElkGroveDan]

Frisbeterian?

[Realman30]

One hears so much about this so I just skimmed the article. Was she a grandma, 77, who didn't care for the in-flight DVD?

[VRWCmember]

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Hell no, and it's not over now.

[b4its2late]

I guess Amish. And he wanted some peanuts!

[ZULU]

Ingmar Ibn Saud Ibn Khalidiji Ibn Usama

[bayliving]

Vegan? Polygamist? Jacobite?

You guys are getting it all wrong!

It was the Jehovah's Witnesses yet again!

They just wanted to share the TRUE Word of God with the pilot and copilot.

[El Gato]

An angry Lutheran, probably.

Probably a squarehead (Swede). But the Danes can have tempers as well.