Posted on 03/18/2020 3:40:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An American Airlines flight from Dallas to Nashville took over eight hours to take off and was delayed three times after a man reportedly joked about having coronavirus.
Flight #1076 to Nashville was set to depart around 6:30 p.m. and arrive at 8:40 p.m. Saturday but did not finally arrive at BNA until 4:40 a.m. Sunday. The man, who has not been identified, reportedly wouldn’t lift his tray table up before the plane took off at which point he claimed he had coronavirus.
“People were freaked out because nobody knew what was going on,” said passenger Brandon Kenney, “People didn’t know if he was actually sick or if he really didn’t have coronavirus or not.”
The situation understandably was taken very seriously. HAZMAT crews and police officers boarded the plane and had the man removed.
Passengers were reportedly panicked after seeing HAZMAT on the plane. Police told a passenger we spoke with that the man ‘wasn’t all there.’
“Right after he was escorted off the plane, one of the cops came back and kind of explained the situation to the people that were sitting near him and kind of spelled it out for us and told us not to worry about it and really was just talking about how he was joking about having the coronavirus,” said Kenney.
Panic soon turned to frustration for passengers of the plane as part of the flight crew did not want to fly after the incident. Crew issues and maintenance issues led to further delays, all totaling about eight hours. The man who created the initial havoc was arrested.
Airports are working to try to stop the spread and are a very big concern right now. Officials say the biggest concerns are social distancing and planes being an issue because social distancing cannot be done on them.
Dallas-Fort Worth Airport is one of 13 airports that Americans who are coming back after visiting restricted countries are being flown into so they can be tested for coronavirus.
Officials say you should wash your hands and avoid touching your face and take all necessary precautions to help prevent the spread of coronavirus.
American Airlines acknowledged that the passenger was arrested for making a false claim. We reached out for further information, and we are still waiting to hear back.
Most patients with COVID-19 have a mild respiratory illness including fever, cough and shortness of breath. The Tennessee Department of Health strongly encourages Tennesseans to wash your hands often with soap and water and to not touch your eyes, nose or mouth with unwashed hands.
The CDC recommends that for the next 8 weeks, organizers (whether groups or individuals) cancel or postpone in-person events that consist of 50 people or more throughout the United States.
High-risk individuals are defined as adults over 60 years old or people of any age with serious chronic medical conditions such as: Heart disease, diabetes, or lung disease.
The Tennessee Department of Health offers a COVID-19 Public Information Line at 877-857-2945, with information available daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Central Time.
If there was justice in the world, this individual would have been led to the tarmac and have been shot in the head. Leave the body out in plain sight for a couple of days as a reminder to stop f*cking around these days.
Get a grip, the guy is mentally disturbed from what the police said.
All the passe gers should be entitled to beat the living crap out of him.
Morons. I guarantee that when the plight attendant freaked out he told her it was just a joke. No way he was standing the claiming he really had it.
But bubblewrap safety nation goes into a mass panic.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3825010/posts
and
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3824875/posts
We’re still allowing flights in this country? Seriously?
That won’t last another week.
Many years ago in the Philippines (manila suburb) they caught a thief who stole from the neighboring houses and EACH one of the victims took turns beating the crap out of the sap. I witnessed it. The cops arrived an hour later lol and the guy was black and blue. The cops asked what happened explained he was the thief but “ fell” on the pavement. The street captain whatever he was said. Cops shrugged and pushed him into the car. Not this hold the head into the car nonsense you see here..literally pushed him into the back of the squad car.
Many of us deal with hardship and stress with humor. I know I do,
Often deliberately.
But there is a time and place and the airport/airplane isn’t it.
Consider fellow FReeper that your comment is actually mentally unstable.
It was an error in judgment on his part. Wrong. No one should be summarily executed for that.
We will find out pretty quickly if he is from a good family (name withheld and quietly released) or a commoner (charges stand and named and shamed).
No. It was a terroristic act.
In the old days, it was bad form to yell out “Hi, Jack!”
These days it’s bad form to yell out “Woo Hoo!”
No fly list. Forever .
People are stupid. Before 9/11, my wife and I were flying home when our plane was struck by lightning. You could hear a pin drop. Two young ladies started joking about bombs and stressing out my wife with our 2 year old daughter on her lap.
Turned around and told them to shut up or I was calling over a stewardess. Four hours talking to security would have cured them.
It was not an act of terrorism. You are genuinely overreacting. No one was physically attacked in anyway. No one even tried to physically harm anyone.
Expect more of this.
“part of the flight crew did not want to fly after the incident.”
They’re idiots. If the statistics the CDC, etc., are throwing out there are correct, then 3/4 of the passengers on every flight have it and don’t know it and don’t show it.
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