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Unruly man grounds AirTran flight
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | JANUARY 8, 2010 | By Mashaun D. Simon

Posted on 01/08/2010 8:09:48 PM PST by Jet Jaguar

The unruly and allegedly drunk passenger who forced an emergency landing of an AirTran jet flying from Atlanta to San Francisco Friday is being held over the weekend in anticipation of federal charges being filed Monday.

Muhammad Abu Tahir, 46, of Virginia was transported to the El Paso, Co. County jail where he will be detained on a federal hold, said FBI officials.

Federal charges for interference with a flight crew are expected to be filed, FBI spokeswoman Kathleen Wright told the AJC Friday night.

The incident occurred on AirTran flight #39 as the plane neared Colorado Springs, Co. AirTran spokesman Tad Hutcheson told the AJC Friday afternoon. The Boeing 737 was almost four hours into the flight, and had 132 passengers and five crew on board.

The flight departed Atlanta around 9:48 a.m., said Hutcheson. Around 1:30 EST, a flight attendant reported to the captain a man being disruptive.

“He failed to obey instructions to be seated, became verbally and physically abusive towards the flight attendant, and then proceeded to lock himself in the plane’s restroom,” Hutcheson said.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; US: California; US: Colorado; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: airtran; flight39; islam; muhammadabutahir; tahir
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To: buccaneer81
"Tell that to Atta and his 9/11 crew."

They also went to a strip club. But I was being cynical in any case.

21 posted on 01/08/2010 8:25:53 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Muhammad Abu Tahir...

It should be federal law that no muslims are eligible to take any form of public transportaion until the year 3010.


22 posted on 01/08/2010 8:26:13 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Payne)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Didn’t Fruit of Kaboom terrorist say that there were other guys training just like him?

It makes me wonder if these are some of them - these jihadists know they can’t sneak in their bombs right now, so they hurl insults instead.

Either that or it’s meant to be a distraction. Security needs to be beefed up EVERYWHERE right now. Not just planes.


23 posted on 01/08/2010 8:28:31 PM PST by justsaynomore (What we learn from history is that we do not learn anything from history, - George Bernard Shaw)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Muhammad Abu Tahir - Flemish?
24 posted on 01/08/2010 8:30:00 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Jet Jaguar

The SOBs are testing our wimpy procedures in a variety of different situations. They’re going to learn a lot, and we’re going to pay a huge price for it. The bastards should be beaten half to death on the plane and then chucked out the door with a hambone stuffed down their craw.


25 posted on 01/08/2010 8:30:27 PM PST by LibWhacker (America awake!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

OH NOT THIS SHI- AGAIN. When will these damn germans stop with this evil..... I am getting tired of it. {sarc}


26 posted on 01/08/2010 8:31:38 PM PST by crazydad
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To: Jet Jaguar

There is a plan and it is being accomplished.
Try, test, again and again. Soon we all will feel this behavior is common place, just another crazy.
Hope some Agency is keeping track of all these attacks on our lives.
Oh, that’s right, the Agency who is keeping track will soon be blamed by this Administration for keeping track.
We are in so much trouble.


27 posted on 01/08/2010 8:32:26 PM PST by mojo114 (Pray for FReeper Jeff Head)
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To: RummyChick

Yes, it is very strange, I think they are probing.


28 posted on 01/08/2010 8:34:54 PM PST by pepperdog (As Israel goes, so goes America!)
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To: exit82
Why oh why do they ever allow the Amish to fly?


29 posted on 01/08/2010 8:38:09 PM PST by B-Cause (Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: PghBaldy

“the crazy floodgates have been opened”

I think that happened last November when the 0 was elected.


30 posted on 01/08/2010 8:40:51 PM PST by pepperdog (As Israel goes, so goes America!)
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To: exit82
Hey exit82 - one more Amish joke.

Why oh why do they ever allow the Amish to fly?


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to watch this video of Amish Porn!


31 posted on 01/08/2010 8:41:37 PM PST by B-Cause (Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

“This situation turned out to be nothing more than a passenger who has too much to drink,” he said. (AirTran spokesman)

How stupid does he think we are? It’s insulting to even hear this.


32 posted on 01/08/2010 8:41:54 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, islam will cover the earth with darkness for a thousand years.)
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To: RummyChick

Me either.


33 posted on 01/08/2010 8:42:58 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: RummyChick

Judging by the note, the guy on the Hawaii flight sounds like he was just jonesing for more meth. No wider conspiracy as Janet would say.


34 posted on 01/08/2010 8:44:13 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: mojo114
There is a plan and it is being accomplished.

I note a statement recently as this kind of thing being:

"Psychological and economic warfare".
The Reverend David Manning PhD of New York.

The insidious cruelty of these people is something that is hard to fathom. Harmless citizens going about their business of getting from A to B, then being not only inconvenienced but no doubt scared as well.

Something has to happen pretty soon. We cannot keep on trying to get back on even keel. First a ban on air travel for life should come into effect. Next force such an individual to pay reparations.

35 posted on 01/08/2010 8:46:19 PM PST by Peter Libra
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To: mojo114

What needs to happen is all passengers can take on spray-can bull horns and keep yer trigger finger on it.

Any passenger Achmed-ish so much as peeps, the entire cabin deploys the sound while the guy behind him gives him the piano-wire treatment.

Pilot cabin wouldn’t be alarmed by it, what with the door thickness.


36 posted on 01/08/2010 8:49:09 PM PST by txhurl
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To: Peter Libra

Yes.
It all hurts business travel as well.
Plan.


37 posted on 01/08/2010 8:50:41 PM PST by mojo114 (Pray for FReeper Jeff Head)
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To: Jet Jaguar
I had read further after my first post. Mr Tad Hutcheson, a spokesman for the airline is quoted as saying that "it is just a case of a passenger having too much to drink".

We are doomed. (Maybe)

38 posted on 01/08/2010 8:52:25 PM PST by Peter Libra
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To: SpaceBar

a man by the same name got bit by a dog..and then arrested when the police found out he was wanted for assault and theft...

maybe a tad unstable..but probably didn’t want to die a jihad death!


39 posted on 01/08/2010 8:52:43 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: B-Cause

That was cute. Thanks


40 posted on 01/08/2010 8:54:49 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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