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Flight delayed when math mistaken for terrorism by passenger
Fox News.com ^ | May 8, 2016

Posted on 05/08/2016 7:27:31 AM PDT by Kaslin

An Ivy League professor says his flight was delayed when a fellow passenger mistook his scribbling on a math problem as a sign he might be a terrorist.

American Airlines confirms that a woman expressed suspicions about University of Pennsylvania economics professor Guido Menzio.

He was flying from Philadelphia to Syracuse on Thursday to give a talk at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. He was working on a differential equation, but said he was told the woman thought he might be a terrorist because of what he was writing.

Casey Norton, a spokesman for the air carrier, said the women’s allegations about Menzio were deemed not credible.

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That doesn’t change the fact that the woman is an uneducated moron.


121 posted on 05/10/2016 11:30:26 AM PDT by dinodino
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