Skip to comments.
Plane quarantined at San Jose International Airport (AN ACTUAL AP ARTICLE)
Associated Press Newswires ^
| 19:47 ET
| By COLLEEEN VALLES
Posted on 10/13/2001 5:32:25 PM PDT by TheOtherOne
Plane quarantined at San Jose International Airport
By COLLEEEN VALLES
19:47 ET
Associated Press Newswires
Copyright 2001. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
SAN JOSE , Calif. (AP) - About 80 passengers were held aboard a United Airlines jet that arrived Saturday afternoon from Chicago after a man reportedly stood up in mid-flight and released a powdery substance into the air ventilation system.
Police, FBI and emergency crews were at the scene setting up a decontamination tent for the passengers of United Airlines Flight 1669 from Chicago.
"There was apparently a report of a middle eastern male who went to the rear of the plane and opened up an envelope. It had some powder in it and it went through the air duct system," said San Jose police department spokesman Rubens Dalaison.
The witness and the man who allegedly dispersed the powder were taken off the plane and were being decontaminated at about 5:00 p.m. Fire department personnel took air samples from inside the United Airlines Airbus 319 craft to determine if any toxic agents were present, Dalaison said.
Airport spokesman Jim Peterson said someone from flight crew radioed ahead to the San Jose tower at about 2:30 p.m. and told them that a witness reported seeing a man open up an envelope and disperse an unknown substance into an air vent.
The incident came as anthrax scares spread throughout the United States. In Boca Raton, Fla., five more tabloid employees at the American Media Inc. building tested positive for exposure to anthrax, a company spokesman announced Saturday.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80 ... 241-252 next last
To: TheOtherOne
Hope it's just a nut case, but could be the start of the second wave.
2
posted on
10/13/2001 5:35:26 PM PDT
by
6ppc
To: TheOtherOne
I wonder why they did not set down earlier........
3
posted on
10/13/2001 5:36:33 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
To: 6ppc
I hope the passengers ripped the guy's eyeballs out and stuffed em in his mouth!
4
posted on
10/13/2001 5:37:54 PM PDT
by
YaYa123
To: TheOtherOne
bump
5
posted on
10/13/2001 5:37:55 PM PDT
by
tutstar
To: cmsgop
I wonder why the passengers didn't beat the guy to a bloody pulp!
6
posted on
10/13/2001 5:37:58 PM PDT
by
Don Munn
To: cmsgop
I read in an earlier thread that it was actually in the last 1/2 hour of the flight.
To: TheOtherOne
Let's fly this guy to Afghanistan and drop him off in Kabul. Preferrably strapped to a bunker buster.
We better stiffen penalties for this kind of action.
8
posted on
10/13/2001 5:39:02 PM PDT
by
drstevej
To: 6ppc
Nut case or not, unrelated to 9/11 or not, any type of disruptive actions by ANYONE regarding anthrax release, slitting bus driver throats or the like is DAMN serious. To me, a dastardly act is a dastardly act. It seems like the Feds breathe a huge sigh of relief if it just a nut case and that is wrong.
9
posted on
10/13/2001 5:39:26 PM PDT
by
L`enn
To: TheOtherOne
Good find. Still no deinite info.... I want to know if the man is a Muslim!
10
posted on
10/13/2001 5:40:02 PM PDT
by
onyx
To: TheOtherOne
enalty for nut case or terrorists:
Cut heads off and sew them into pig bellies and send to the families.
To: TheOtherOne; *Anthrax_Scare_List
To find all articles tagged or indexed using
Anthrax_Scare_List
Go here:
OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC) LIST
and then click the Anthrax_Scare_List topic to initiate the search! !
To: TheOtherOne
This doesn't make sense. This isn't instant death. It's a curable thing. Seems like there would be more "efficient" ways of doing something.
13
posted on
10/13/2001 5:40:57 PM PDT
by
Hildy
To: TheOtherOne
It's time for them to go. Maybe some middle eastern people will suffer, but since the "Good Americans" of middle eastern background, who know many pieces of information which would be helpful in our current situation have failed to come forward to offer assistance. It's time for them to go. As the President said, you must pick your side. You cannot continue to live in America, enjoy our benefits and still stand by and do nothing. Either provide complete information or leave.
14
posted on
10/13/2001 5:41:00 PM PDT
by
Lockbox
To: YaYa123
I like your style ! I'll fly with you anytime !!!
15
posted on
10/13/2001 5:41:29 PM PDT
by
kristinn
To: TheOtherOne
Take whatever was in that envelope and stuff down Ahmed's throat. Give it a chaser of Farmer John Center Cut Bacon. Then duct tape his mouth-shut and repeatedly kick him in his pea-sized nuts.
Lather, rinse and repeat.
To: YaYa123
I hope the passengers ripped the guy's eyeballs out and stuffed em in his mouth!Better idea: ever watched "V: The Final Battle"? In the last part of it, after the good guys find the "red dust" that kills the aliens, Michael Ironside's character grabs one of the main alien baddies, sits down on his chest and POURS the red dust poison down his throat! SOB screams and dies like all get out.
Maybe do this with a Glad-bag of anthrax on bin Laden if/when we catch him ;-)
To: Hildy
"This doesn't make sense. This isn't instant death. It's a curable thing. Seems like there would be more "efficient" ways of doing something."How about nerve gas?
To: onyx
"I want to know if the man is a Muslim!"He's been described as "Middle Eastern."
To: 6ppc
This is the MO of terrorist-we need to zero in on where it came from and quit playing-If they want to play games we need to give them time to move out and NUKE their territory- They are going to make life miserable until we really get tough and I would rather get it on with. They are playing mind games.
20
posted on
10/13/2001 5:44:22 PM PDT
by
gunnedah
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80 ... 241-252 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson