Posted on 08/23/2006 9:47:09 AM PDT by areafiftyone
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch police arrested 12 passengers on a U.S. Northwest Airlines plane bound for India which was forced to turn back to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday, news agency ANP reported.
ANP quoted a police spokesman as saying 12 were arrested, but declined to give further details due to the ongoing investigation.
Police officials were not immediately available to comment.
The Dutch Defense Ministry said earlier the pilot decided to turn back after the crew said several of the 149 passengers on flight 42 to Mumbai were behaving suspiciously.
Security has been increased at airports worldwide in the last two weeks after British police said they had foiled a plot by British Muslims to blow up planes in the mid-Atlantic using liquid explosives disguised as drinks.
You watch, that gang will turn out to be Amish.
***but declined to give further details due to the ongoing investigation***
Mums the word...
You don't think they are embolden by what has happened in the middle east these last couple of months??? They think we are not going to back anything up?????
I'd like to know how the pilot turned around; i.e., whether he disguised the 180 with a 3-minute 1.2g turn, or perhaps a 4g wingover with a big altitude loss (not likely, of course), and whether he waited for the military escort before doing anything. Such things might telegraph how seriously the pilot understood the situation to be.
HF
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2347585
...A U.S. government official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the subject, said crew members and air marshals observed the passengers trying to use cell phones and passing them among themselves while the airliner was taking off.
"It was behavior that average passengers wouldn't do," the official said....
I just got back home; arresting 12 passengers on one flight is a huge deal, imo.
Will check back in later for more information.
Yes but it must be black .
Same for the Bluetooth.
Weeell, its jsut a grave really... but it is admittedly a big moneymaker. Also, it burns up a lot of muzzies, that a muslims 'wonder of the world' is in 'hindu' India.
Hmf. On the other hand, it could be that one of them had a kinky video on his cell.
So the original story is now "bunked"?
I know how he feels about Iraq. I just didn't hear him phrase it the way you did -- "they are going to come after us now that Israeal has lost the war". Actually, they have been coming after us for the past couple of decades.
Wasn't it the Dutch who published a picture of Mohammad and caused all the Ms to get their turbans in a knot?
Thank you both.
I thought Air Marshals had already intervened... the pilot would presumably not need to disguise his actions?
Obviously FALSE. The flight originated in Minnesota. They are all Lutherans.
Danish, not dutch. The Dutch jsut force muslims to watch queer porn, before they can become Dutch citizens.
Thanks for the link.
I thought most of those "move along" posts were sarcastic.
did they have names like "Joe Smith" and "Pete Turner" ? or maybe more like Ahkmed?
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