British Airways Flight Detained at Dulles Airport, Passengers Being Quizzed by Security

Local Channel 5 | Wednesday, December 31, 2003 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

D.C. Fox affiliate WTTG-5 reported a few minutes ago that British Airways flight 223 has been detained on the tarmac at Dulles Airport, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C.

The flight landed at 7:06 p.m. Passengers have not been allowed to deplane. Some family members waiting at the terminal were able to speak with some of the passengers via cellphone. They were told TSA and other security personnell are interviewing passengers and inspecting luggage.

Over two hundred passengers and crew are on the plane.

More to follow as reported. Please forgive any errors as this just caught my ear.

[hunter112]

my god, look at how much plastic surgery cindi lauper had on her face. her skin looks like a piece of stretched saran wrap.

Girl's just got to have funds.

Seriously, this had damn well better be something real. The paranoia level's gone through the roof. I absolutely refuse to fly until we go back to pre 9/11 screenings. Damn Islamofacists can take off their silly shoes five times a day, I'm not gonna.

[BushMeister]

"I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber."

[nuffsenuff]

"...the flowing robes... the grace. Big hitter."

[sfRummygirl]

"GOFFFFF....without the 'L'"

[Newbomb Turk]

No panic. This is just to show all those foreign airlines that if you don't check your passangers and luggage on your end this is how we will check it on our end.

[bwteim]

[al baby]

[prairiebreeze]

thanks

[angkor]

They are looking for a specific passenger.

The are looking for a specific unknown suspect, that's why they're grilling everyone. And the seat assignments because they want to validate that the non-suspects were sitting where they were supposed to be sitting (not seat hopping), so they can search the suspect's seating area once they nab him or her.

They must be thinking the suspect might have ditched something during the 3 hour delay.

[Dog]

I am guessing just like everyone else on this thread.....I don't have a crystal ball.

[Hand em their arse]

I forgot that one, that's one of the best in the movie!!!

[Hotdog]

I do....but can't talk now...

[sfRummygirl]

HA!!!
Oh, I love this....I'm popping in the movie right now....

[cajungirl]

Makes sense. Hope it isn't a disease.

[cibco]

My bad...

[angkor]

Why else would they want to confirm seat assignments?

Process of elimination. They want to search the suspect's seat.

[Johnny_Cipher]

“So I said, ‘Hey Lama, how about something, you know, a little extra – for the effort?’ He said, ‘There will be no reward; but on your deathbed, you will have gained total consciousness.’ So I got that going for me, which is nice.”

[Domestic Church]

Yes!!!!

[Semper911]

This is going to suck because we are never going to find out what happened.

[STARWISE]

We haven't heard much about airline safety specifics, but weren't they going to mandate the airlines to have a camera in the cockpit facing the passenger cabin and one from the rear of the plane facing forward? Anyone know?

If certain flights are being monitored via video, they may have spotted something from an area of the plane that made them suspicious.