Airline escorted by F16 to IAH airport Houston TX

News | 9-11-02 | AV

[antivenom]

See title...man possibly with a knife...

[ladtx]

Hope he has it greased up real good. Cause I know where the passengers will put it.

[kassie]

Any more details?

[antivenom]

waiting to hear more...

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Hello. Also, does anybody know more about a plane in the DC area which was jet escorted to RDU airport yesterday? (I was told this by someone but cannot find any local news about it).

[antivenom]

Believe it was an American Airline...witing to hear more...it broke on local news...Fox 26 on tv...I'm at the office and work about 5 miles from IAH...will keep ya posted.

[COBOL2Java]

I have to ask the question: given our heightened state of alert, and even more so, the fact that airline passengers will no longer take any s___ from knife-wielding or box-cutter-holding ragheads, are the terrorists that stupid to think they can get away with another airline incident?

[Fred Mertz]

Thanks for keeping us posted.

[antivenom]

Y/W...I am scurrying for news...

[Poohbah]

Hope he has it greased up real good. Cause I know where the passengers will put it.

I can think of less painful (and more effective) ways to get treatment for hemmorhoids...

[OC_Steve]

This is not much more information, but it is from the KHOU website.

HOUSTON (KHOU) -- Air Marshalls contacted the Houston Police Department after they found a folding knife on Dallas/Nashville bound American Airlines flight 1702. .

The FBI has reportedly heard that there are two people in custody from the flight.

[Constitution Day]

It was Charlotte-Douglas, not RDU.

Fighter jets force down small plane in Charlotte

[TexasCajun]

I live just a few miles from Ellington Field which 20 miles south of Houston.

Usually all I see or hear are the small trainer jets the astronauts keep up their hours in.

But starting yesterday afternoon and all night, I could hear the big boys screaming overhead keeping an eye on the city and the coast.

Both a bit un-nerving and comforting at the same time.

[antivenom]

Damn glad for the air marshalls...maybe they work when they work...guess the guy was "brandishing" the knife...because I doubt the air marshalls frisk people during the flight...

[EuroFrog]

I think this is a different incident than the one you have linked to.

[antivenom]

Fed Marshalls still on plane...plane on tarmac...surrounded and ready to be stormed...

[antivenom]

FBI confirmed it was an "attempted" hijacking

[antivenom]

FBI is stating the 3 guys in the restroom is NOT terrorism but the one in IAH is an attempted hijacking...

[Aggie Mama]

That's what the local stations are saying right now. Two air marshalls were on the plane.

[antivenom]

Luxary jet has 87 seats...would be a crew of 2...plane near gate 27