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

Posted on 01/08/2010 1:25:46 PM PST by 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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Colorado; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: airtran; atl; flight39; fwm; lockedinbathroom; muhammadabutahir; muslim; nationalsecurityfail; norad; noradjets; scramble; sfo; tahir; tyndallafb
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To: STARWISE; CodeToad; Squantos

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.


21 posted on 01/08/2010 1:39:05 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: livius

Maybe he got lost.


22 posted on 01/08/2010 1:39:47 PM PST by Redcloak (Error 404: Tagline not found.)
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To: STARWISE
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23 posted on 01/08/2010 1:40:07 PM PST by Cyber Ninja (His legacy is a stain OnTheDress)
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To: STARWISE

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.


24 posted on 01/08/2010 1:41:07 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Secret Agent Man

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


25 posted on 01/08/2010 1:43:00 PM PST by STARWISE (.They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: onyx

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.


26 posted on 01/08/2010 1:43:18 PM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: Beaten Valve

Thank you.


27 posted on 01/08/2010 1:44:02 PM PST by STARWISE (.They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: STARWISE

Ditto that!


28 posted on 01/08/2010 1:45:06 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: tet68

ROTF!


29 posted on 01/08/2010 1:45:28 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: onyx

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


30 posted on 01/08/2010 1:46:15 PM PST by LizardQueen (The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.)
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To: STARWISE

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


31 posted on 01/08/2010 1:47:02 PM PST by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: onyx

Yeah .. what you said.


32 posted on 01/08/2010 1:47:14 PM PST by STARWISE (.They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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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?


33 posted on 01/08/2010 1:47:48 PM PST by Cyber Ninja (His legacy is a stain OnTheDress)
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To: PrinterEagle

Thanks .. ;)


34 posted on 01/08/2010 1:48:07 PM PST by STARWISE (.They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: GonzoGOP

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.


35 posted on 01/08/2010 1:48:12 PM PST by onyx
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To: STARWISE

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.


36 posted on 01/08/2010 1:48:28 PM PST by Eroteme
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To: STARWISE
...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.
37 posted on 01/08/2010 1:49:09 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Kozak

Or a shoelace or belt ...


38 posted on 01/08/2010 1:49:19 PM PST by STARWISE (.They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: Marty62
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.
39 posted on 01/08/2010 1:49:52 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: LizardQueen

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.


40 posted on 01/08/2010 1:50:43 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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