“Did your friends tell you that all the passengers were taken off the plane and all returned save one?”
No one was returned to the plane with the defective radio. Crews have passengers taken off all the time, they don’t use hijack alerts to do it.
If they thought it was a hostage situation or some other security breach, they would have removed passengers. The story is one of the passengers didn't reboard. That plane or another one. I had heard it was the original plane.
Also, it seems if it was a an inadvertent button pushing error, why wouldn't the passengers reboard the same plane?
You really don't smell something fishy?
Bagster