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Home Front: WoT
Unruly Passengers Disrupt Northwest Flight 243
2010-01-13
MyFoxDetroit.com - Sources tell Fox 2 that a flight from Amsterdam into Detroit Metropolitan Airport was held on the tarmac after landing because of unruly behavior by some of the passengers. The source says four men from Saudi Arabai were saying something in Arabic that alarmed four on-board Federal Air Marshals. The Marshals speak Arabic. A decision was made to stop the plane on the tarmac away from the passenger terminal and remove the men from the plane.

Once the men were removed, the rest of passengers were then taken to the terminal for deboarding.

The Transportation Security Administration says the unruly passengers were interviewed by Customs and Border Protection officials. But the TSA says the passengers were released and no arrests were made.

Delta Air Lines spokeswoman Susan Elliott says the crew of Northwest Flight 243 requested that authorities meet the plane Tuesday after it landed because four passengers didn't follow their instructions. She says nobody was injured but wouldn't describe what the passengers were doing.
Posted by:Steve White

#16  Didn't work quite so well for the FBI with the MAJ Hasan project Gorb.

Now that you mention it, it would be kinda stoopid, wouldn't it. Well, make sure they go on the "No Fly Unless Body Cavity Search" list then.
Posted by: gorb   2010-01-13 17:18  

#15  Might I suggest Heard Islands & McDonald Islands, in the Southern Ocean. Not far from Antarctica, with weather to match. An uninhabited, hard to reach and thoroughly dreadful place. Did I mention it is COLD there.
Posted by: Throsing Poodle5798   2010-01-13 16:22  

#14  Remove Detroit's international flight status.

FTFY.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2010-01-13 15:27  

#13  Remove Detroit's international flight status.
Posted by: Spike Flusose5942   2010-01-13 13:20  

#12  Glenmore, St. Helena would do also but it's still too easy for the evil ones to get a boat that would make the trip.

200 years ago it took a whole lot more effort.
Posted by: AlanC   2010-01-13 13:01  

#11  AlanC, It would be a nasty thing to do to the 300 residents, but other than that, Tristan da Cunha might make a good penal colony.
Posted by: Glenmore   2010-01-13 12:40  

#10  But the TSA says the passengers were released and no arrests were made.

Yeah, and I bet they got on the next plane with nothing said at all.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2010-01-13 11:48  

#9  In the soon to be written post-mortem, I suspect the Australian experiment in prison systems will be seen as one the Empire's few success stories. Proving simply that the inmates actually can quite run the institution. Three cheers and a hat tip to the Convicts!
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-01-13 11:43  

#8  One of the unfortunate consequences of improved technology is that it's no longer possible to turn Austrailia into an unbreachable prison colony.
Posted by: AlanC   2010-01-13 11:32  

#7  #3 I say let them ride. Find out who they are and start finding out who these people are networking with. Posted by: gorb 2010-01-13 09:36

Didn't work quite so well for the FBI with the MAJ Hasan project Gorb.
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-01-13 11:10  

#6  four marshals on the plane and they spoke arabic?
Posted by: bman   2010-01-13 11:03  

#5  It isn't just international flights to be worried about. I've had several domestic flights of concern (Houston, Dallas, Chicago, NY) with Muslims I've kept an eye on just in case. You can check-in and board in a small regional airport without scanners, pass through a major hub and deplane without ever catching the connecting flight, while the checked bag continues or something is left behind in a bathroom. We had a major Newark delay and they put lunches onboard last minute while we waited on the tarmac and apologized. Airport employees are of concern, also. I say body scan all passengers and any refusals get full pat-downs with body cavity searches. The newest scanners are very quick and would include any sensors to check shoes for explosives. After all this, I still think these antics are to divert attention and resources while something else big is in the works. Something big is coming, tho....I can feel it in my gut.
Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091   2010-01-13 11:01  

#4  Its nice to be tolerant , but alas that time passed many moons ago ..

Steam roll them , flatten them , throw them off and throw them in isolated holding cells for 24 hours . Let them experience a mini Gitmo . Repeat offenders x 2 lock up for 10 years in the desert .

SO19 employed the correct tactics the other week , but it was against drunken louts of non muslim background
Posted by: Oscar   2010-01-13 10:51  

#3  I say let them ride. Find out who they are and start finding out who these people are networking with.
Posted by: gorb   2010-01-13 09:36  

#2  I'd like to be as reasonable, open-minded, tolerant and fair as anyone else.

But if this nonsense continues, I have a simple solution: no Saoodis on any US airplane. You want to fly from Amsterdam to Detroit, fly Royal Saoodi Air, because Northwest doesn't have a seat for you.

And if His Decrepititude doesn't like it and turns off the oil, we'll survive. He won't.
Posted by: Steve White   2010-01-13 09:21  

#1  This is becoming ever more increasingly common. Just count the incidents alone in the past three months.

I believe it to be a little more than just funky moslems acting goofy on the planes every week.

News dispatches may be used as intel.
You soften up the authority with frivolous junk until it is weakened enough to allow something really big in.

At the same time, you communicate using flight numbers, locations, airline identification and so forth.

Maybe algorithm stuff.
Posted by: newc   2010-01-13 01:39  

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