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| US airliner receives 'toilet-bomb' threat |
| 2010-01-16 |
| Authorities arrested Friday an American who locked himself up in the toilet of a Michigan-bound US passenger plane and made a bomb threat. US authorities temporarily shut down the Cherry Capital Airport in Traverse City, Michigan to check for bombs in the bathroom of a United Express plane. "The flight landed without incident at TVC (Cherry Capital Airport), all passengers were deplaned and the plane was swept with negative results," the Transportation Security Administration said in a statement carried by AFP. "Per standard procedures, law enforcement and TSA personnel met the flight, and the passenger in question is currently being interviewed." No details have been released on the identity of the California man who made the threat. According to authorities, the suspected man is under interrogation. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Fifteen minutes in the bathroom? If he'd made multiple such trips I would believe either constipation or severe diarrhea, but otherwise that's very suspicious -- especially if the gentleman was indeed flying while Arab... and making bomb threats. Anyway, making bomb threats is a crime on its own, regardless of individual appearance or national origin. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-01-16 14:13 |
| #2 I believe the Russians reported that the "bathroom method" was used in the 2004 plane bombings. The Traverse City Record-Eagle (love the name!) has a pretty good account: A California man, 28, was detained throughout the afternoon after he spent about 15 minutes in the plane's bathroom, where a plastic flap apparently was dislodged sometime during the flight from Chicago. Traverse City resident Bob Crosby was on the flight, traveling home from a stay in Chicago. He was seated next to a young man who stood and eventually walked to the plane's rear. "I just happen to have a recollection of seeing him fooling around with his carry-on luggage," Crosby said. Crosby saw the man handle "a tiny package" before he headed to the plane's restroom. "I don't know if he took it back there with him," he said. The passenger, who originally sat next to Crosby, spent roughly 15 minutes in the bathroom, he said. A flight attendant later discovered a panel inside the bathroom had been "tampered with" after he exited. Airline officials made an emergency call to police to report "suspicious activity by a passenger on an aircraft," police said. David Boyer was seated seven rows behind the man, and said he saw him walk into the bathroom. But Boyer, 47, a Chicago resident who has a house in Acme, called the situation a "colossal misunderstanding." "He did nothing more than flying while Arabic," he said. "It was a completely normal flight." Police would not confirm whether the man was of Middle-Eastern descent. http://www.record-eagle.com/local/local_story_016011021.html |
| Posted by: Pstanley 2010-01-16 03:59 |
| #1 Force feed him so much laxative that he never wants to make any such threat again and learns to love a restroom. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2010-01-16 00:21 |