Could it be?
Posted on 09/13/2006 5:04:27 AM PDT by Blueflag
read it. excerpted. CNN rules. Series incident. hugh impact.
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Anything about his religion? Or just a nut case?
This one might just be a screwball.
I'm surprised he got off the plane alive. I think I'd beat him senseless if I were on a flight with a passenger like that.
Just a nut case, but he did enjoy a SERIOUS beat down, courtesy of the passengers before the FAM 'restrained' him.
Gotta love it.
No one will EVER successfully hijack a US-flagged air carrier again, ever. Period.
Bring it on!
I think the passengers did tenderize him a bit.
BTW, I love your tag line -- so true.
A man wearing military fatigues and throwing punches into the air tried to open the exit door of a jet during a cross-country flight on Tuesday night, airline officials and passengers said.
United Airlines Flight 890 from Los Angeles landed as scheduled at Washington Dulles International Airport at 8:35 p.m., said Amy Kudwa, a Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman. No one was injured.
Ken Wolfenberger, of Whittier, Calif., who was on the flight, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that he helped subdue the unruly passenger. The man wore patches on his fatigues with special forces and jujitsu champion logos, Wolfenberger said.
The man had been acting strangely for about 20 minutes, then sat up, wrapped belts around his hands and threw punches into the air, Wolfenberger said.
Wolfenberger said he heard a flight attendant yell for help and tell the man, "Sir, get your hand off the handle."
"Any time you hear a flight attendant shout 'please help,' you worry that something pretty bad is going to happen," he said.
Wolfenberger said the man was held down and punched by other passengers as he grabbed the man's leg. Air marshals then came and took custody of the man.
The passenger became unruly about 3 1/2 hours into the flight, said United spokeswoman Megan McCarthy.
"After the passenger was restrained, the pilot decided to land at Dulles," McCarthy said. "It wasn't an emergency landing."
Airport police and FBI agents met the flight and were interviewing the passenger, said FBI spokeswoman Debbie Wierman.
There were 138 passengers and six crew members on board, McCarthy said.
hugh - but didn't this happen yesterday?
Sad that you have to post such a disclaimer. Search Nazis maybe don't realize that everyone will see the FIRST article posted.
Now, I haven't read the story yet, but I imagine I would be dragging a guy trying to do that down into the isle and pounding on him. I don't know if jet doors will even operate at pressurized altitude.
"Wolfenberger said the man was held down and punched by other passengers as he grabbed the man's leg. Air marshals then came and took custody of the man."
Am I reading here that air marshals let the passengers do the dirty work here before stepping in?
LOve your comment!
Ahhhh yes...timing is everything, eh ? :)
Ok. Now I am worried about just how easy is it to open one of those doors?
I don't know why so many screwballs seem to go off their meds before they fly anywhere.
Maybe they WANT to be stomped into the carpet until dead by strangers at 30,000 feet or something. There's a reason they call it crazy.
"Passengers said shouting broke out at the rear of the packed plane and a man wearing a camouflage jacket and shouting in Portuguese lunged at the rear door, pulling on the handle."
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060913-072616-8397r
Could it be?
"the guy took quite a beating"
gotta love the passengers!
I think they want to make sure it's just one lone nut before they blow their cover.
I'm not positive but I believe that it is near impossible to open a door on a pressurized airliner. I think the door opens inward and the pressure would make it VERY hard to open.
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