Posted on 08/16/2006 8:33:21 AM PDT by boughtwithaprice
BOSTON — A United Airlines flight from London's Heathrow Airport to Washington, D.C. was diverted to Boston Wednesday after the pilot declared an emergency over a passenger disturbance, FOX News has confirmed.
A female passenger aboard United Flight 923 had Vaseline, a screw driver, matches and a note referencing Al Qaeda, according to Phil Orlandella, spokesman for Boston's Logan International Airport.
The flight, with 182 passengers and 12 crew members landed safely, United spokesman Brandon Borrman said. Borrman said a female passenger was spotted engaging in some "suspicious" activity, but he could not immediately say what the activity was. The flight was escorted to Boston by two fighter jets.
"If she pulled these out of her carry-on luggage, that would have made many people very concerned," said terrorism expert Neil Livingstone. "She shouldn't have had these items on the aircraft."
Officials from the Massachusetts Port Authority told the local FOX affiliate that there were three suspicious passengers aboard the flight and that at some point, there was a confrontation with the flight's crew members. Officials said the three passengers may have had "items" on them but there was no description given of those items.
But WBZ Radio in Boston quoted FBI officials there as saying the incident involved a female passenger who appeared to be claustrophobic, unable to maintain control of herself. The incident may have then escalated to involve other passengers.
State Police and federal agencies took control of the plane after it landed safely. Massachusetts police are handling all other details on the ground, Borrman told FOX News.
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Fox News has just declared this information false.
It's hard to get the truth from these situations for a while.
.....guess I had better stop flying with my table saw, gas can and Stinger missile launcher.
Which begs the question - regular passengers (ala Flight 93), or bad guys?
Well Laura Ingraham just announced it as being diverted to DC. Maybe that was the "false" element.
I understand it was the highest mucky-muck at Logan who initially released the information. Is that not true, do you know?
The flight, with 182 passengers and 12 crew members landed safely, United spokesman Brandon Borrman said. Borrman said a female passenger was spotted engaging in some "suspicious" activity, but he could not immediately say what the activity was. The flight was escorted to Boston by two fighter jets.
Officials from the Massachusetts Port Authority told the local FOX affiliate that there were three suspicious passengers aboard the flight and that at some point, there was a confrontation with the flight's crew members. Officials said the three passengers may have had "items" on them but there was no description given of those items.
But WBZ Radio in Boston quoted FBI officials there as saying the incident involved a female passenger who appeared to be claustrophobic, unable to maintain control of herself. The incident may have then escalated to involve other passengers.
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Good grief. Which is it?
listening to WRKO--John DePetro talking with newscaster (Paul Tuthill)...vaseline, screwdriver, etc., not true...(TSA
Dir. denies these reports)
"The woman said she was claustrophobic and was very upset" so the flight landed..."she's flown before, and has a prob. with claustrophobic)
listen live http://wmc1.liquidviewer.net/WRKO
It was diverted "from" DC "to" Boston. She was probably just talking too fast.
Was the woman MUSLIM? Isn't that an important part of this story?
No, she was a Quaker.
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| Someone needs to start taking apart everything in that airplane that a screwdriver can gain access to. We already know that most of Heathrow's ground employees are Muslim, getting something onboard hidden behind a panel in a restroom doesn't seem far fetched. |
good point...what a time to be PC and not try to sound racist. /rolls eyes
DING,Ding,Ding...we have a winner. DBM is probably behind every false story we read.
...fighter jets escorted the plane...DePetro talking to witness
"I saw commercial jet to my right; as soon as jet came into view, two fighter jets came roaring into view. One took a circle over Hull, the other took a circle over Quincy, and that's when I tuned in to your show to see what was going on. It's almost like the jets were trying to catch up to the plane."
had Vaseline, a screw driver, matches and a note referencing Al Qaeda
She was looking to screw herself....
The authorities initially denied that Charles Bishop/Bishra was a Bin Laden loving terrorist who crashed a stolen plane into a bank in Tampa, Florida.
But after a couple months they released his suicide note, which included the words "Terrorist act" with the word terrorist scratched out and love for Bin Laden. He had also made a terrorist threat against the Super Bowl and that note was not released until after that event had passed (and the public had forgotten).
Well, wouldn't that make AP look equally incompetent?
This story supports the Fox story you posted:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2006/08/london_flight_d.html
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