Per FNC -Norad launched 2 fighter jets- Tyndall AFB, unruly passenger Muhammad Abu Tahir (#145)

[STARWISE]

Neil Cavuto just read news crossing the wire.

Two fighter jets were launched by NORAD from Tyndall AFB in FL due to an issue with an unruly passenger on an Air Tran flight from Atlanta to San Francisco.

Hopefully, more follows soon.

Plane has landed at Colorado Springs airport.

A young man was taken into custody after the flight was diverted.

The man was thought to be intoxicated and locked himself in the bathroom.

The crew radioed the situation, and the fighters were launched.

Everyone's safe on the flight .. the passenger is in custody.

[Travis McGee]

Clearly, the new “standing orders” are to NOT allow a jetliner to be crashed over a populated area.

That’s all a fighter jet can do: control the crash location.

[Redcloak]

Maybe he got lost.

[Cyber Ninja]

[gaijin]

The administration knows they have to get tough, but owing to PC orthodoxy, they must demonstrate that the new toughness is not ethnicity-dependent. For this reason, I get the feeling this guy is just some 4H’er having a reallllly bad day.

Just watch —it’s a surfer, mormon, or Future Farmers of America type.

[STARWISE]

I don’t think we know where they were
on the flight path at the point of
‘the escort’ down to Colorado Springs.

[GonzoGOP]

If this just turns out to be a drunk, as opposed to a test run, I would like the guy to get the bill for the jet fuel used by the fighters as a fine. Put the fear of God and the gas man into the next guy who decides to have a few on the plane.

[STARWISE]

Thank you.

[Marty62]

Ditto that!

[Rebelbase]

ROTF!

[LizardQueen]

I hope they check to make sure he was actually drunk and not having a diabetic episode. I have a Type-1 diabetic friend who nearly died when she got arrested by police for suspected drunkenness when she was actually having a serious blood sugar problem (I think it was low). Slurring, stumbling etc. She nearly ended up in a coma.

I have no sympathy for drunk, unruly, or muzzie flyers but after what happened to my friend I do hope they check out the blood sugar issue.

LQ

[Kozak]

This why I Always have a roll of Duct Tape in my carryon...

[STARWISE]

Yeah .. what you said.

[Cyber Ninja]

Does anyone remember the name of this years old
‘B’ movie about terrorists with bombs surgically
implanted in their bodies that they set off by
banging their wrists together?

[STARWISE]

Thanks .. ;)

[onyx]

I’m ‘on board’ with your thinking, but I also want to know exactly how he managed to get “drunk” and his exact alchohol reading/measurement.

[Eroteme]

Airtran Flt 39.

That’s the same flight number of the unruly passenger incident Wed., a Hawaiian Airlines flight out of Portland to Maui. Fighter jets were scrambled for that one too.

[Doogle]

...is it just US flights that receive fighter escorts when something like this happens? The reason I ask is....we've been told the US knew of the Fruit of Kaboom bomber before it landed, but I don't remember it getting escorted. So either it's just US flights or *tsk tsk* were being lied to again.

[STARWISE]

Or a shoelace or belt ...

[BigEdLB]

Build a big new lock-up near Death Valley CA, 125F in the Summer. Let this dude and the Pantibomber be inmates one and two. Lose all keys to the cells. Pay Sheriff Arpajo $1M / yr to run the place.
Baloney, preferably PORK baloney, for everyone.

[DJ MacWoW]

That happened to my Dad years ago. He begged the police for a cube of sugar. They finally gave it to him. When they realized what had happened, they took him to a hospital.