Posted on 05/09/2011 6:07:24 AM PDT by markomalley
Crew members and passengers wrestled a 28-year-old man to the cabin floor after he began pounding on the cockpit as an American Airlines flight approached San Francisco, the third security incident in a day on U.S. planes, authorities said Monday.
The man was yelling unintelligibly as he brushed past a flight attendant about 10 minutes before American Airlines Flight 1561 was due at San Francisco International Airport Sunday night, Sgt. Michael Rodriguez of the San Francisco police said.
A male flight attendant tackled the suspect, who carried a Yemen passport, and other crew members aided as the suspect banged on the cockpit door.
"He asked for help; a couple of passengers joined in," Rodriguez told The Associated Press. "They were able to get him to ground and a flight attendant put him in plastic handcuffs."
The Boeing 737 carrying 162 people landed safely at 9:10 p.m. and the man was taken into police custody.
He was identified as 28-year-old Rageit Almurisi. Though he carried a Yemen passport, it wasn't clear if his nationality was also Yemeni, Rodgriguez said.
Almurisi was charged with interfering with a flight crew, a federal offense. No motive has been established and the officer said he had no information when asked if the disturbance was linked to terrorism.
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Har, har, har...very good. These days, I would have expected a female attendant to be tough enough to "subdue" the guy.
ISLamish...
It’s a bit of misunderstanding.
The male flight attendant was standing behind the guy.
The guy dropped something and bent over to pick it up.
When the male flight attendant saw another guy bending over in front of him, the male flight attendant thought it was an invitation and simply took him up on the offer.
Well at least he didn’t have an African name and wasn’t carrying an Indonesian passport.
Seems like I've read about a handful of incidents on planes, lately.
One just yesterday - a captain tossed a couple of Muslims off the plane.
He may even be an Amish Jew.
‘Not unlike.’
lol
Good. Very good.
Where were the air marshalls??? Or DHS “decide” there were no real threat just like the border.
Completely unfair comment: I can’t picture any male flight attendant I’ve ever seen subduing a bad guy. Congrats to him for breaking the stereotype.
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