Posted on 09/21/2007 8:13:18 PM PDT by pitinkie
A plane from JIA to Raleigh is being held on the runway because of some kind of problem on-board.
Raleigh-Durham Airport Police say they got a call about a "serious disturbance" between two passengers.
The plane landed and is now surrounded by police in a remote area.
Our sister stations there tell us it's American Eagle flight 518.
Passengers were kept on-board for more than an hour, but have since started de-planing.
The FBI and TSA are both investigating
update:
“Two people were arrested at Raleigh-Durham International Airport Friday night after causing a “serious disturbance” on their flight from Jacksonville, Fla., according to an airport spokeswoman.
No one was injured, but the disturbance was classified as a terrorist threat, according to RDU Spokeswoman Colleen Fischvogt. Investigators did not say what may have been said or found to have prompted that decision.
Authorities did not immediately release the names of the two people who were arrested. They are in the custody of the FBI, officials said.
Police and emergency personnel met American Eagle flight 4518 at RDU after hearing that two passengers were causing a disturbance. The plane was held away from the terminal after it landed, and police surrounded the aircraft.
It had been scheduled to go to Gate C26.The flight was an Embraer ERJ-145, a regional twin-engine jet, according to its schedule information.
Several other emergency vehicles were also on the scene.
The flight was en route to RDU when the crew called for police to meet them.
Flight 4518 was due at RDU at 8:20 p.m. after leaving Jacksonville at 7 p.m.
Passengers were kept on the plane for a time, and police approached the aircraft with movable stairs. Passengers were able to get off the plane just before 9:50 p.m.
Police then took them to a central location to interview them briefly about what they had seen or heard.
Officials had disclosed no information at 10:30 p.m. about the cause of the disturbance or what happened to make the crew call police.
RDU commercial operations were proceeding normally during the incident, with both main runways open.”
Cleanup, aisle 3?
My guess: a man and a woman -- perhaps one or both having been drinking -- were having a loud argument, and one of them said something about "taking this damned plane down with you in it," or something of that sort.
I once sat in front of a married couple who cussed and insulted each other the entire flight without taking a breath. I almost popped a vein trying not to laugh.
Looks like we’re on the same wavelength....
Thats what I thought..but the flight is pretty short to Raleigh..unless they be drinking in the airport!
I never yell at my husband on the flights..I am drugged!
I’ll go out on a limb and guess they were drinking long before they got to the airport.
Another amish
From First Coast News:
“Although an RDU spokeswoman said two people were arrested as the FBI investigated a “perceived terrorist threat” on board American Eagle Flight 4158 from Jacksonville, FL, to RDU, an FBI spokesman said he couldn’t confirm those details.
“Apparently, about 30 minutes prior to landing, there was a report of a passenger acting suspiciously,” FBI spokesman Newsom Summerlin in Charlotte said.
Local and federal law enforcement officials responded when the plane landed about 8:40 p.m. at a remote area of the airport, he said. Airport spokeswoman Colleen Fischvogt, who said two people were arrested, said the passengers were bused to their terminal.
She did not have names or charges.
Summerlin would not comment on whether anyone was arrested, adding that there’s a difference between investigative detention and being arrested.
American Airlines spokesman Tim Wagner said a flight attendant had “a security concern with a passenger,” prompting law enforcement officials to meet the plane.
The flight departed Jacksonville at 7:10 p.m., the Transportation Security Administration said.”
Part of what made it so funny was they used normal talking voices and didn’t repeat themselves.
Now thats strange!
They never tell if the two passengers are Americans or foreign!
update:
A federal investigation determined there was no threat aboard an American Eagle flight on which a flight attendant reported that two passengers were acting suspiciously, an FBI spokesman said early Saturday
The FBI searched the plane and interviewed the 27 passengers and three crew members aboard American Eagle Flight 4518 from Jackonsville, Fla., and determined “the observed activity was misperceived,” FBI spokesman Newsom Summerlin in Charlotte said.
He would not comment on what the flight attendant thought she saw.
No one was arrested, he said.
An FBI spokesman has now confirmed that there never was an American Eagle Flight 4518 from Jacksonville, Florida; they know nothing about the 27 passengers that were on the flight that did not exist; and they have never heard of Raleigh, North Carolina.
You left off the “nothing to see here, move along” part...
LOL
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