Airline escorted by F16 to IAH airport Houston TX

News | 9-11-02 | AV

[antivenom]

See title...man possibly with a knife...

[ladtx]

Hope he has it greased up real good. Cause I know where the passengers will put it.

[kassie]

Any more details?

[antivenom]

waiting to hear more...

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Hello. Also, does anybody know more about a plane in the DC area which was jet escorted to RDU airport yesterday? (I was told this by someone but cannot find any local news about it).

[antivenom]

Believe it was an American Airline...witing to hear more...it broke on local news...Fox 26 on tv...I'm at the office and work about 5 miles from IAH...will keep ya posted.

[COBOL2Java]

I have to ask the question: given our heightened state of alert, and even more so, the fact that airline passengers will no longer take any s___ from knife-wielding or box-cutter-holding ragheads, are the terrorists that stupid to think they can get away with another airline incident?

[Fred Mertz]

Thanks for keeping us posted.

[antivenom]

Y/W...I am scurrying for news...

[Poohbah]

Hope he has it greased up real good. Cause I know where the passengers will put it.

I can think of less painful (and more effective) ways to get treatment for hemmorhoids...

[OC_Steve]

This is not much more information, but it is from the KHOU website.

HOUSTON (KHOU) -- Air Marshalls contacted the Houston Police Department after they found a folding knife on Dallas/Nashville bound American Airlines flight 1702. .

The FBI has reportedly heard that there are two people in custody from the flight.

[Constitution Day]

It was Charlotte-Douglas, not RDU.

Fighter jets force down small plane in Charlotte

[TexasCajun]

I live just a few miles from Ellington Field which 20 miles south of Houston.

Usually all I see or hear are the small trainer jets the astronauts keep up their hours in.

But starting yesterday afternoon and all night, I could hear the big boys screaming overhead keeping an eye on the city and the coast.

Both a bit un-nerving and comforting at the same time.

[antivenom]

Damn glad for the air marshalls...maybe they work when they work...guess the guy was "brandishing" the knife...because I doubt the air marshalls frisk people during the flight...

[EuroFrog]

I think this is a different incident than the one you have linked to.

[antivenom]

Fed Marshalls still on plane...plane on tarmac...surrounded and ready to be stormed...

[antivenom]

FBI confirmed it was an "attempted" hijacking

[antivenom]

FBI is stating the 3 guys in the restroom is NOT terrorism but the one in IAH is an attempted hijacking...

[Aggie Mama]

That's what the local stations are saying right now. Two air marshalls were on the plane.

[antivenom]

Luxary jet has 87 seats...would be a crew of 2...plane near gate 27

[Frank_Discussion]

WOW! Someone must have heard me SHOUTING! :-)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/748690/posts?page=231#231

[CFW]

By Associated Press, 9/11/2002 14:53
HOUSTON (AP) Air Force fighters escorted an American Airlines flight to Houston after a disturbance was reported on board Wednesday, officials said.

The airplane was on the ground at Bush Intercontinental Airport.

''We seem to have some sort of situation,'' Houston Airport System spokesman Ernie DeSoto said. ''It is surrounded. I really don't have many details at this moment.''

DeSoto said U.S. air marshals were aboard the flight, which reportedly had been headed to Dallas.

Representatives of American, the FBI and the Federal Aviation Administration did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Fed Marshalls still on plane...plane on tarmac...surrounded and ready to be stormed...

I have a feeling this is a copycat/lone nutcase situation. Somebody capitalizing on the big stage of 9/11, perhaps? I don't see trained terrorists trying to hijack a plane using only one man with a knife. Not only that, but they seem to change their targets and methodology from one attack to the next. Waiting to hear his name and nationality...

[Dog]

Here you go....

F-16 escorts small plane

[antivenom]

I STILL know why I will never fly American airlines...

[Dog]

Did they really say attempted hijacking??

[antivenom]

YES...and the FBI said the incident with the 3 men is NOT a terror incident...I am waiting to find out the "ethnic" description...will keep you posted...

[kinghorse]

Hmmm. George Bush intercontinental. Would I want that name tied to some infamous act for all of history if I was an enemy combatant? I still feel nuke plants should come equipped with humvees and stingers. --Looks nervously towards South Texas Nuclear Project(STNP) in Palacios TX.

[StolarStorm]

Every incident is going to be a copycat because the Government is in cover up mode. Don't want to frighten the sheeple now do we?

[antivenom]

It would hurt more to "bomb" a refinery...

[fivecatsandadog]

I wonder if that's what happened with the 3 or 4 that locked themselves in the privy on the NW flight to Las Vegas today. Maybe they chickend out...

[hispanarepublicana]

Is this the Houston FBI speaking on Houston TV, or what?

[Shermy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/748832/posts

[kassie]

Thanks for the update.

[Private Joker]

Preparation H - as in howitzer.

[Naspino]

If the FBI has said this was an attempted hijacking where is the news? None of the major news networks are carrying it.

[antivenom]

FBI agent was on radio...he said they are investigating the "situation"...apparently the person WAS removed from the flight...might have been another person involved...will keep you posted...

[antivenom]

http://www.khou.com/news/local/KHOU020911_rc_BushInterIncident.113a18b0.html

[antivenom]

FBI reports attempted highjacking on American Airlines jet at Bush Intercontinental

09/11/2002

HOUSTON (KHOU) -- An American Airlines flight was escorted Wednesday afternoon by F-16's to Bush Intercontinental Airport after a disturbance was reported on board.

Air Marshalls contacted the Houston Police Department after they found a folding knife on Dallas/Nashville bound American Airlines flight 1702.

The four person crew of the 50 passenger Fokker 100 jet turned around 42 minutes into the flight.

"We seem to have some sort of situation," Houston Airport System spokesman Ernie DeSoto said around 1:30 p.m. CDT. "It is on the ground. It is surrounded. I really don't have many details at this moment."

One man had an unidentified object in his hand. Marshalls felt uncomfortable and insisted on returning to Houston.

Stay tuned to khou.com and Channel 11 for more information on this incident.

[antivenom]

2 men in custody...still don't know the ethnicity...

[LikeLight]

Wouldn't want any actual news to detract from the pre-scheduled news of the day . . .

[blam]

American Air Jet Diverted in 'Security Incident'

Wed Sep 11, 3:22 PM ET

HOUSTON (Reuters) - An American Airlines jet bound for Dallas returned to Houston Intercontinental Airport shortly after takeoff on Wednesday because of what an airlines spokesman called "a security incident" on board.

An FBI spokesman told a Houston television station there may have been an attempted hijacking on board.

"It appears to be an attempted hijacking, but I do not have that confirmed," FBI agent Robert Doguim told KHOU-TV in Houston.

News reports said passengers reported seeing two men in the cabin with what appeared to be a weapon, possibly a folding knife. The reports said the men were taken into custody.

American spokesman Gus Whitcomb told Reuters that two U.S. air marshals were on the flight, as were four crew members and 50 passengers.

[Naspino]

Someone posted this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/748858/posts

This account says that two men were seen in the cockpit wielding a knife.

[spokeshave]

Mineta to retire.....news at 11

[ET(end tyranny)]

FNC reporting the incident now.

[Naspino]

Ok - so two guys, one midget and the other was a penguin -- more to follow -- the race of the penguin is being withheld.

[da_toolman]

This account says that two men were seen in the cockpit wielding a knife.

Um, it says cabin, not cockpit.

[hispanarepublicana]

FBI agent Robert Doguim

What do you bet that Agent Doguim will be spending the rest of his career at a desk with a yellow highlighting marker going through telephone bills in white collar crime cases?

[joyful1]

Couldn't be Muslims, cause their pieceful!!

[uncbob]

I have a feeling this is a copycat/lone nutcase situation

My first thoughts also