Posted on 12/07/2005 11:28:34 AM PST by YoshiBear
Hope this is not a duplicate. No more details yet Passengers getting off
I take that chance.
Sky News Report:
Shots Fired On Miami Plane
Updated: 21:16, Wednesday December 07, 2005
An American Airlines passenger has been shot dead by an air marshal in Miami after claiming to have a bomb in a bag.
The shots were fired as the passenger attempted to flee into the terminal via a jetway - a bridge link - leading off the plane.
He is said to have been hit as he put a hand into his carry-on bag.
A Homeland Security official said: "Shots were fired as the team attempted to subdue the subject."
The spokesperson said air marshals had pursued and ordered the passenger to get down on the ground.
"The passenger then reached into his carry-on bag, at which point, consistent with air marshal training, the air marshals took the appropriate actions."
It is not clear whether the person was shot during a struggle or if he was running away from air marshals at the time.
The jet had landed at Miami International Airport and is currently on the tarmac.
It is surrounded by heavily armed police and passengers are being taken off the plane - stopped at Gate D42.
Flight 924 had flown in from Medellin in Columbia - it had been heading for Orlando.
American Airline Corporation spokesman Tim Smith confirmed: "There was an incident on the jet bridge on one of our aircraft in Miami."
Defence and security expert Francis Tusa told Sky News that anyone threatening to have a weapon on board a plane in America is "not going to get any mercy from US officials at all".
He added that the presence of air marshals in the US was "boosted dramatically post 9/11" and that pilots do not always know an air marshal is on board a flight.
Hindsight is so easy. Split second decisions and actions..the result of their training...IMO they should be thanked, not blamed.
Maybe they wanted the views from the Mothership.
>> ...shots were fired. Conflicting reports as to whether anybody was hit.
I've posted as much elsewhere, but it bears repeating:
IF you get into a situation where you MUST pull that trigger, any result NOT requiring a body bag is a failure. Either hang it up or get your lousy arse out on the firing line for more practice.
I doubt it. There has to be something to set off the charge.
Trouble is, terrorist leaders tend to recruit mentally handicapped people to do their dirty work. Richard Reid, the would-be "shoe-bomber", was obviously not mentally competent, but if his handlers had drilled him just a little more thoroughly in the art of lighting a shoe-bomb fuse, he could still have blown up the plane.
True. Same is true for me when I forget to take my medication. But schizophrenics in particular are a proble:
1. They think they don't need the medication or that the medication is the problem
2. They aren't only sick, they can be a mortal danger to themselves and to others.
When I forget my blood pressure medication it doesn't truly harm others.
Well, now there's an oxymoron
Good point.
Cavuto just wondered that again. If the dead guy said "I have a bomb" in spanish, and the marshalls understood him, then, Neil, I suppose they understand spanish!
If the dead guy said "I have a bomb" in English, then, dear Neil, what does it matter if or if not the marshalls know spanish?
Me too, LOL! That reminds me of a pillowcase I saw yesterday while on-line shopping. It said "If you're ugly, be gone when I wake up!"
Mary Gardner, a passenger on the flight, said the man ran screaming down the aisle and a woman followed behind him, yelling "my husband, my husband," the WTVJ station report. "I did hear the lady say her husband was bi-polar and had not had his medication," Gardner said in the interview. "I saw the woman, I think she was English-speaking, blonde hair, she was hysterical," said the passenger. "He started running crazily through the aisle," Gardner added, "he was running like he was frantic, his arms flailing in the air."
Yes. Who knows how much harm this act has prevented.
Wow, there are some serious barf-alert items in the bulleted lists in that link.
Sorry about your sister but she's right to think we are being invaded.
If you are gonna travel with the psychotic, better keep 'em medicated, muzzled or on a short leash.
(oh, don't worry, my dog has never bitten anybody)
Tengo una bomba
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