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Flight makes emergency landing at MCI due to unruly passenger
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Posted on 02/14/2022 10:09:17 AM PST by csvset

KANSAS CITY, Mo — American Airlines flight 1775 had to make an emergency landing at MCI this afternoon. The flight was headed from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. when an unruly passenger tried to cause chaos mid-flight.

According to another passenger on the plane, Mouaz Moustafa, some aboard weren’t initially aware of what was going on.

“A flight attendant comes to the middle of the plane where I am, yells to another flight attendant in the back to turn on the lights. At this time, the plane starts descending very rapidly, I think we reached 5,000 feet per minute,” Moustafa said.

Passengers on the plane started to assume the worst.

“As that’s happening, a lot of people don’t know what’s really going on. I mean, people assume, maybe something happened to the pilot, maybe we’re just literally crashing. So, a lot of people, including me, honestly thought we might, this might be it.”

When those aboard realized what was going on, they acted quickly.

“One of the flight attendants jumps all the way to the back and grabs a coffee pot and walks up to the front,” Moustafa said.

“There’s a man who’s trying to get into the cockpit, and afterwards, also tried to open the door to get out the plane. So, some of the passengers that were very heroic, helped the flight attendant who went to the back and got the coffee pot, came up and kept, sort of, bashing him in the head.”

After the whole situation was over, the plane landed safely at MCI around 2:30 p.m. followed by police and the FBI interviewing passengers. The individual aboard the plane was taken into custody.


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: american; juan; kcmo; la; mci; rivas
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Might be nothing . Nice use of coffee pot.
1 posted on 02/14/2022 10:09:17 AM PST by csvset
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Flight attendants should have baseball bats..


2 posted on 02/14/2022 10:11:09 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: Col Frank Slade

Whatever you give the flight attendants will immediately be turned against them.


3 posted on 02/14/2022 10:13:08 AM PST by Tom in SFCA
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To: csvset

LA to DC eh? Did the guy look like a congressman referred to as shift (with the f removed).


4 posted on 02/14/2022 10:13:54 AM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: Col Frank Slade

5 posted on 02/14/2022 10:14:48 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: csvset

Guy in big trouble; interfering with the flight crew plus financial since he’ll be fined and have to pay landing fee at MCI which would be around $25,000 plus whatever AL charges him.


6 posted on 02/14/2022 10:15:01 AM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: csvset

After 9/11 it would have been a good idea to allow pilots access to firearms. Store them in a locked safe in the cockpit. Give each pilot a key. The keys must be turned simultaneously, from different spots in the cockpit. Kinda like with missile launches.

Then there’d be no need for combat-ready coffee pots.


7 posted on 02/14/2022 10:16:07 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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A taser would be more effective than a coffee pot.


8 posted on 02/14/2022 10:16:55 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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> A taser would be more effective than a coffee pot. <

Good point. I amend my post #7 to include tasers.


9 posted on 02/14/2022 10:20:03 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

“Flight attendants should have baseball bats..”

Very few people raised in the West could hit someone with a bat. Most likely, they’d threaten with the bat and it would get taken away and used against them. It’s similar to having a gun. If you’re not trained and imbued with the will to use the weapon, then you’ve likely armed your opponent.

Also, your company all the way down to your boss would need to establish they’re behind you and that’s even less likely because of liability. The jump in insurance costs all the way down the employee pyramid would be prohibitive.

BTW, I’m guessing drug use in this instance.


10 posted on 02/14/2022 10:27:31 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry.)
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To: csvset

I always ask for a ‘seat belt extender’.

Makes for a pretty good club in this kind of situation.....


11 posted on 02/14/2022 10:28:23 AM PST by ASOC (This space for rent)
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To: Leaning Right; Cobra64

A bronze short sword would work too.

12 posted on 02/14/2022 10:31:32 AM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: dfwgator

I never got over Macho Grande.


13 posted on 02/14/2022 10:32:54 AM PST by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: csvset

Moustafa, Moustafa, Moustafa. Irish, perhaps?

Anybody else notice it’s American Airlines that’s been in the news lately?


14 posted on 02/14/2022 10:34:26 AM PST by twoputt
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After 9/11 it would have been a good idea to allow pilots access to firearms.

They did. A good number of pilots do carry but their not going get involved in a passenger donnybrook. Their firearms are only to protect the cockpit. And rightly so.

15 posted on 02/14/2022 10:42:28 AM PST by usurper
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To: csvset

Where are John Wick and a No. 2 pencil when you really need them?!?


16 posted on 02/14/2022 10:49:41 AM PST by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: usurper

According to the article the guy tried to get into the cockpit. I know cockpit doors are now reinforced. But I do wonder what kind of reception pilots had planned for him had he succeeded.


17 posted on 02/14/2022 10:49:49 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: twoputt

Moustafa, Moustafa, Moustafa. Irish, perhaps?

Anybody else notice it’s American Airlines that’s been in the news lately?


Moustafa is the one reporting the incident not doing.

But remember when they were constantly testing the airlines?


18 posted on 02/14/2022 10:50:21 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: csvset

An ancient, elven blade...


19 posted on 02/14/2022 10:54:06 AM PST by viewfromthefrontier
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I remember a time when MCI stood for Microwave Communications Incorporated.   When I hired on the joke was that we were a Law Firm with an antenna on top.
20 posted on 02/14/2022 10:54:20 AM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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