Posted on 08/02/2005 4:44:57 PM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
Posted on Tue, Aug. 02, 2005
Plane lands at KCI after passenger finds razor
By GLENN E. RICE The Kansas City Star
An America West flight made a precautionary landing at Kansas City International Airport this afternoon after a passenger found a razor blade aboard, according to airport officials.
The flight originated in Phoenix and was on its way to Cleveland when the passenger saw the one-sided blade on the floor, KCI spokesman Joe McBride said.
The plane landed in Kansas City about 1:30 p.m. It was not immediately known where the blade came from. There were no reported problems involving passengers and no reported injuries, McBride said.
According to initial reports, the passenger saw the blade near the restroom. The passenger immediately alerted the flight crew, who put the blade in the cockpit, McBride said.
The pilot then decided to land at KCI, where airport police and its canine unit searched the plane. Authorities screened the 147 passengers and crew members who were on board and found nothing suspicious, McBride said. The plane resumed its flight about 90 minutes later.
Aha, my dear Watson. Elementary. The case of the razor blade that didn't bark?
Just arm everybody and it will soon sort itself out.
"If you go through the metal detector and it doesn't go off they should give you a gun".
Could have been one of these...
Malaysian flight had engine trouble and dropped altitude rapidly on takeoff -- people panicked -- but plane made it back to airport.
Then there is the miraculous Air France fire on landing with no one killed in Toronto.
Number 3 was smoke in the cockpit of a Tucson to DFW flight of American Airlines (fire trucks surrounded plane on landing).
And this incident in Kansas City.
On another thread, this day is the anniversary of the DFW crash of an L1011 (August 2, 198?).
90 minutes? Any report on how pissed the passengers must have been 'cause the pilot p_ssed his pants over one blade?
http://www.keatv.com/news/c-article.php?cid=17nid=7668
Hard to use as a weapon, although easy enough to gash yourself on a finger. OTOH, wounds close easily and heal quickly.
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