Posted on 06/04/2023 3:34:33 AM PDT by Libloather
A Delta flight heading to Detroit, Michigan was forced to make an emergency landing on a remote Canadian island after an unruly passenger broke free of his restraints.
The 34-year-old traveler was allegedly being 'violent' on the flight and 'wouldn't calm down' on the trip from Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris, France.
He was restrained by airline staff but managed to break free before five to six passengers jumped in to restrain him again.
The captain took an emergency diversion six hours into the flight and landed at Stephenville Dymond Airport on the Canadian island of Newfoundland at around 3.35pm.
The man was then arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and footage of the interaction was shared online.
A clip of the incident shows him being marched down the aisle and off the Airbus A330-300 plane which had 261 passengers onboard.
'What am I under arrest for?', he is heard asking in the video.
Dena Haddad, a passenger on the Delta 97 flight, claimed the man had been 'violent' during the journey and 'wouldn't calm down'.
'We wanted to get here as soon as possible. It was scary for a little bit,' she told local television station WXYZ Detroit.
Another passenger said: 'When we arrived to Canada and saw the police cars, we felt secured and fine.'
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They’re plastic, don’t seem to bother TSA. I’ve been thru probably dozens of times with them tucked away in there.
And they weigh darn near nothing, another plus.
The usual suspect. They are the same all over the world. Unruly, uncivilized and with a huge chip on their shoulder.
A really great idea!
I never fly any longer but would put it in my carry-on, just in case.
Quite surprising they included a picture that was clear enough to determine the race of the perpetrator.
Yep. I didn't have to look. But I looked. I found out I didn't have to look.
AA, it seems.
I drive 12 hours one-way a couple times a year to visit my daughter. It is a nice drive, but a bit expensive in my truck. Still cheaper than a flight and the hassle. Well, unless you hit a deer and total your truck. :(
We'll take the EV on trips that have lots of charging options on the way, particularly with my wife wanting to stop every 200 miles and stretch her legs for 10-15 minutes (which mirror's the EV's road charging). For now that's cheaper than filling up the pickup, especially if we wind up staying at a hotel with complementary chargers. The same for when the weather is nice and we rent a RV campsite to hammock in the trees (and charge the EV using the TT-30 to NEMA 14-50 adapter). Part of the math on the EV being cheaper on trips is the first 250 miles are almost free from charging at home (with 80% of our power needs provided from our home solar, me trying to be energy self-sufficient to give us some protection from the Dims' control-freak energy policies).
We take the gas pickup on trips that have few chargers (only once since we bought the EV). I might also take the gas pickup if I go on a trip without my wife since I don't want to stop every 200 miles, but I haven't had a solo trip since we bought the EV a year ago.
The gas pickup is also a fallback in case the Dims make power supplies (including road-side charging) less reliable. If the Dims make gas hard to come by and/or too expensive (IMHO gas is still too expensive), we have the EV car for trips. If the Dims make both power and gas hard to come by, home solar combined with an EV gives us some mobility for local transportation (easily 200 mile round trip with a margin for safety in a grid-down situation where there are no charging options except for home).
I would guess the airports at St. John’s and at Gander get more traffic than the one in Stephenville. A plane crash on Dec. 12, 1985, near the Gander airport killed 256 people, most of them US servicemen returning from peacekeeping duties in the Middle East. There’s now a memorial to the dead at the site of the crash which I saw in 1997.
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