Posted on 09/03/2015 3:32:02 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
It certainly appeared to have been a premeditated, pre-planned disruption of a routine flight, perhaps designed to test responses or as a larger plot to intimidate and thereby garner privileges or concessions. It’s not likely that the six despicable individuals involved all just happened to find each other as members of the same Arab soccer team, although they certainly do deserve each other’s company.
A Southwest Airlines flight from San Diego to Chicago was rerouted to Amarillo late Monday, with six passengers removed and subsequently arrested on charges of “interference with a flight crew and abetting.”
FBI special agent T. Scott Hendricks has filed an affidavit which detailed the misbehavior of the passengers, Khalid Yohana, 19; Wasim Imad Shaker, 23; Essa Solaqa, 20; Ghazwan Assad Shaba, 21; Jonathan Khalid Petras, 20; and Saiman Hermez, 19, noting their refusal to obey the instructions of flight attendants and their aggressive and abusive behavior towards both the flight crew and fellow passengers.
As reported in the Dallas Morning News:
One flight attendant said that during the emergency demonstration prior to takeoff, the six “were asked numerous times to put their seat backs and tray tables up, which is required for takeoff of the aircraft, to which they verbally responded ‘no.'”
They “complied” after the flight attendant warned them the airplane would return to the gate if they didn’t do so.
“Later, while the flight attendants were taking drink orders, the six passengers started talking loudly and using profanity,” Hendricks said in his affidavit. The flight attendant “asked them to quiet down and they responded, ‘We can be as loud as we want and do whatever the [expletive] we want on here. You can’t make us listen.'”
When the flight attendant “said they couldn’t do that, they lunged forward in their seats and said, ‘We can do whatever we want on here.'”
That flight attendant denied their request for alcohol. They “became aggressive by lunging forward” at the flight attendant, who “stated she felt threatened and that they were escalating their aggressive behavior.”
The passengers asked another flight attendant why the first flight attendant wouldn’t serve them alcohol. That flight attendant also declined to serve them.
“They accused the attendants of being racist” and called the second flight attendant a “pig” as she walked away. The passengers then told a third flight attendant “that they could do whatever they wanted to because they bought a ticket.”
The passengers “did not comply with anything they were asked to do and were repeatedly standing up and becoming increasing louder. Due to the increase in their non-compliant and unpredictable behavior,” one flight attendant “felt uncomfortable and saw that they were attempting to incite other passengers to join in their non-compliant behavior.”
A flight attendant asked the pilots to divert the aircraft.
According to the affidavit, a passenger across the aisle from the six passengers heard them call the flight attendant a racist and pig.
“She heard them tell each other to throw gang signs, and then saw them using their hands to gesture gang signs. After using the bathroom, one of the passengers leaned towards the female passengers and called her a [expletive], ‘ugly ass’ and ugly.’ He then gave her the middle finger gesture. The passenger began to cry and was shaking. She contacted the flight attendants and was moved to another seat.”
A flight attendant again asked the pilots to divert the aircraft, the FBI agent stated. “The flight crew determined a level one threat existed and instituted an emergency lockdown. The pilots diverted the aircraft for the safety of the flight crew and passengers.” The airplane landed at the Amarillo airport at about 10:45 p.m.
The flight, originally scheduled to arrive at Chicago Midway at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, finally arrived there at 3:23 a.m.
America is a joke, and everybody, our enemies, our allies, everybody knows it.
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http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-court-soccer-20150902-story.html
...Mark Arabo, a leader in the Chaldean community in eastern San Diego County, said the community “intends[s] to wholeheartedly stand behind these young men moving forward.” Arabo identified the six as Christians...
...The six were traveling to Chicago for a soccer tournament that is part of the 82nd annual Assyrian Convention. Several are members of a team in the San Diego Chaldean Soccer League...
No men passengers were on the flight to address the threat?
Stand up and be counted.
“Chridtisns? good! (Should act civilized however and not like that other socalled religion)
Yes, no disagreement here. They should have behaved like gentlemen, not like soccer fans.
Nope, these dudes were going to a Chaldean convention and soccer tournament in Chicago. We can’t wish them off on the Muzzis, no matter how much we would have preferred that narrative.
Don’t let the facts get in the way of your rant.
A probe in preparation for 9/11.
I hope that the Southwest management refunds the return flight money and refuses them service. But that would require managers with backbones and this is America so it won’t happen.
I stand corrected, thanks
bump to the top
A ham sandwich would work too. Maybe take both.
Since they were headed to Chicago and feeling extremely entitled, I wonder what gave them the sense of being 10 ft tall and bullet proof. It is the sort of entitlement a crooked judge has when pulled over for speeding and he shouts, “Do you know who I am?” Were they going to meet with an Obama admin official and discuss the conflict in Syria in addition to their soccer meet, or something? They act like it.
Oh but they often do before they take their suicide run...
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