Next time I suggest they use something a bit stronger.
Posted on 06/04/2023 3:34:33 AM PDT by Libloather
A Delta flight heading to Detroit, Michigan was forced to make an emergency landing on a remote Canadian island after an unruly passenger broke free of his restraints.
The 34-year-old traveler was allegedly being 'violent' on the flight and 'wouldn't calm down' on the trip from Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris, France.
He was restrained by airline staff but managed to break free before five to six passengers jumped in to restrain him again.
The captain took an emergency diversion six hours into the flight and landed at Stephenville Dymond Airport on the Canadian island of Newfoundland at around 3.35pm.
The man was then arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and footage of the interaction was shared online.
A clip of the incident shows him being marched down the aisle and off the Airbus A330-300 plane which had 261 passengers onboard.
'What am I under arrest for?', he is heard asking in the video.
Dena Haddad, a passenger on the Delta 97 flight, claimed the man had been 'violent' during the journey and 'wouldn't calm down'.
'We wanted to get here as soon as possible. It was scary for a little bit,' she told local television station WXYZ Detroit.
Another passenger said: 'When we arrived to Canada and saw the police cars, we felt secured and fine.'
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Who the hell wrote this article?
Newfoundland is NOT a remote island! It’s directly next to Nova Scotia. Does he think Nova Scotia is a “remote” island as well?
A remote island would have been somewhere in Nunavut or Northwest Territories.
Follow the money.
Who bought his ticket?
Round trip DTW - CDG is about €900 and €1500 one way originating in CDG.
Not walking around money.
There is a picture of the perp with his pants half way down (just like all the other uncivilized natives in Detroit).
Very likely a “rap artist” with a first name that ends with a letter ‘a’.
I was thinking: Business, Economy,looney tunes
Kamal Sultan has the byline.
Lives in London but has never been outside the M25 loop. 😉
Oh and can’t use Google Maps ...
I was thinking: Business, Economy,looney tunes
The airport is actually farther south than Parliament in London.
We do that any way to avoid the hassle of going through security check and such. A 1.5 hour flight might take up a total of 4 hours any way from:
1) The drive from home to the airport, plus
2) getting there early enough to go through security, plus
3) flying time, plus
4) at the end of the flight waiting to get off the plane and pick up luggage, plus
5) cab or uber ride to destination.
So if my wife and I can drive from home to the destination in 12 hours, and if flying would take 4 hours of our time, is it worth all the expense (for both of us) and hassle of flying to save us 8 hours?
“He was restrained by airline staff but managed to break free before five to six passengers jumped in to restrain him again.”
Lucky they didn’t land in NYC or the passengers that helped restrain the lunatic would have been prosecuted.
Next time I suggest they use something a bit stronger.
Now with cheap airfares, it's like riding the subway.
That's right; and even those sitting in first class can only get so far from any problems that occur in coach. (A divert is a divert for everyone.)
I carry a couple of HVAC flex duct straps in my carryon backpack in case they’re needed to restrain a guy like this. Think a large economy size zip tie about 42” long.
“Once upon a time (decades ago) air travel was very expensive and these kinds of things never happened. Now with cheap airfares, it’s like riding the subway.”
Obviously cheap fares are a 2-sided coin. In the case of cheap travel, particularly by air, we’ll soon be going back to the old days when only the rich traveled, as the Democrats and Globalists (Ukraine War supporters) are making sure of that, at least for Western countries.
Newfoundland is the first place I visited outside the US when the DC-6 in which I was flying to Germany landed at the airport in Gander to refuel in 1961. This was a popular refueling spot for transatlantic flights in those days.
is he American black or an African/ Arab? Just curious
Maybe we could start with a forced injection of a sedative in the “unruly” passengers?
IF it’s not part of the US Eastern seaboard, it’s remote.
1200 miles from NYC.
Stealing this very good idea...
The best description ever written about bus passengers is “People who have candy for breakfast”.
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