Just caught this on the TV and didn't see it posted before.

I certainly hope this person of "middle eastern persuasion" was detained.

Yikes!!!

Hey, what ever happened to "racial profiling?"

The ChiComs got it right for once...no middle eastern passport holders on their flights....

I'd have to say these people are incompetant at best. They are not getting nearly the bang they want for their buck.

Everybody is being detained in the airplane as it sits on the tarmac. I assume they are wanting to run tests on things before they turn everybody loose.

Police officials are saying that a man of middle eastern persuasion took an envelope filled with some type of powder and released it into the airplanes ventilation system during the flight.

This is more or less what I was afraid of when bin Laden referred to more planes 'falling from the sky'. Only I thought it would be something more immediately deadly, like Sarin or Vx. Because in that case, the pilots would (I believe) be breathing the same recirculated air. Do commercial airline pilots have gas masks that would protect them from such a tactic?

Remember, it's safe to fly.........

One must ask: How does someone get on an airplane these days carrying an envelope (or some other holder) full of powder? Especially someone of "middle eastern" persuasion? After all the furor of the last few days, we aren't looking for something like this?

Since folks just started flying again, I think they (the evil ones) really want to hurt the airlines. This is a sure way of doing it.

Jet held on SJC runway after mysterious powder scattered in cabin

United Airlines flight 1669 from Chicago O'hare International Airport to San Jose International is currently being held in isolation on an SJC runway.

   SJPD officer Joseph Deras reports that a passenger took out an envelope filled with a white powder and scattered it about the cabin, possibly spreading it to the ventilation system, shortly before the scheduled landing at SJC.

The plane has landed and is isolated on the runway at SJC. Police and SJFD hazardous material teams have surrounded the plane, no passengers are being allowed off of the plane at this time.

KNTV...

Yeah, they can take a steamer.

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Oh crap! My girlfriend's parents are on that flight, coming home from New York. I guess that literally brings it home for some of us.

I know! WTF! I was supposed to fly to San Jose this month. On United. Fugeddaboudit. What security moron let this guy on the plane? I wanna see the CEO of UAL eat that white powder before I consider his planes safe. And I'd bet a case of Czechvar this guy ain't in the country legally. DID THEY CHECK THAT???? Noooooooooooo. Too un-PC. The airline can all rot in bankruptcy hell if this is their idea of security.

Everybody is being detained in the airplane as it sits on the tarmac

Yikes! I hope they turned off the ventilation system! You would think they would evacuate the plane!

What if this isn't Anthrax? It could be some biological agent that is contageous! That's why they are keeping people on the plane.

Don't worry. They will be OK. Someone caught it early.