- An American Airlines flight from England to Chicago was forced to land in Bangor, Maine, after federal officials “learned of a reported threat,” FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz said. Marcinkiewicz said no one was arrested but declined to say if anyone from the flight out of Manchester was in custody.
- A US Airways jet was diverted to Oklahoma City’s Will Rogers World Airport after a federal air marshal subdued a disruptive passenger who had pushed a flight attendant, the FBI said.
The passenger was undergoing a mental evaluation, and authorities had yet to determine what criminal charges he might face. The twin-engine jet returned to flight three hours later on its trip from Phoenix to Charlotte, N.C.
- A Continental Airlines flight from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Bakersfield, Calif., was held in El Paso, one of its scheduled stops, after the crew discovered a missing panel in the lavatory, authorities said.
- A utility knife was found on a vacant passenger seat of a US Airways flight that had traveled from Philadelphia to Bradley International Airport in Connecticut, state police said. No arrests were made and there were no threats involved, said Master Sgt. J. Paul Vance, state police spokesman.
- An Aer Lingus flight from New York to Dublin was evacuated Friday morning during a scheduled stopover in western Ireland following a bomb threat that turned out to be unfounded, officials said.
- A United Airlines flight out of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport was delayed because a small boy said something inappropriate, according to a government official speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information. “He didn’t want to fly,” the official said.
The Manchester-to-Chicago flight, American Airlines Flight 55, was diverted to Bangor for security reasons, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Arlene Murray said.
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****The dynamite was discovered during a baggage search in an inspection station at Bush Intercontinental Airport shortly after Continental Airlines Flight 52 from Argentina landed early Friday.*****
Maybe its just me , but I would feel a bit safer if they had discovered the dynamite BEFORE the flight, Not after it landed.
I visited the big Kensington mine in Salt Lake City, UT; and all they had for souveniers was stuff like keychains and hats and t-shirts. I thought those long cylindrical things were rolled up posters. I'll have to ask next time if they have any dynamite samples; I'm sure they might have an old stick or two for the out-of-towners who come through...
If the reference is to Title 49, Section 46505 of the United States Code, the writer should have read the law more carefully. It refers to placing an explosive device on an aircraft. A bomb is an explosive device, but something that might explode if you were unlucky is not, as I understand it; otherwise, is not the aircraft itself an explosive device?
I have no doubt that there are regulations concerning shipment of dangerous cargo (which this man probably broke all to hell), but after all people who work with explosives legitimately have to transport them somehow.
"Fish’s father, Howard, said he is certain his son, who bought the dynamite while visiting a silver mine while traveling in South America, intended no harm."
From what I understand, the Argentine security either willingly or unwillingly let this fella and his dynamite friend, get past them. Seems like we outta put sanctions on Argentina flights until them folks beef up security and prove to us that we can trust their flights to be bomb, dynamite, and just overall, terrorism free...