Two Passengers Held at Seattle Airport

Reuters ^ | Wednesday October 31 11:23 AM ET | Reuters

[Koblenz]

SEATTLE (Reuters) - U.S. Customs and FBI (news - web sites) agents in Seattle seized two passengers from a Northwest Airlines Corp. jet inbound from Narita, Japan, on Wednesday and held them for questioning, airport and airline spokespersons said.

Officials kept the rest of the 201 passengers and 17 crew members on board the Boeing 747-200 while the two unidentified men were questioned and their bags searched, said Northwest spokesman Bill Mellon.

``The FBI asked us to hold (the plane) short of the passenger terminal. Customs and FBI agents boarded the flight and have detained two men. They are questioning them and they are checking their carry-on and checked luggage,'' Mellon said.

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport spokeswoman Terry-Ann Mohon said passengers are routinely held aboard the plane during such an incident.

The red-eye flight from Narita had otherwise gone normally, Mellon said.

``The were no problems on the flight. No incidents were reported,'' he said.

Officials at the Seattle FBI office declined to confirm any of the details of the incident.

[Publius6961]

It's an underwire belt to hold up your stomach.LOL

Now that was clearly below the belt!

[Billthedrill]

Thanks for the info - it turns out that my connector is in Dulles (I feel like I've spent half my life in those funky little people transporters). And one of the legs is on Northwest. I shall avoid taking my lunch along in a thermos jug, as well.

While I do not relish an intrarectal tonsil examination, it's worse for the ladies. I was speaking with my dentist yesterday, who just got back from an East coast trip. She's a rheumatoid arthritis patient, and has metal joints, and so sets off every alarm in the place except the automobile ones. Out comes the wand, then a manual search - she said if it got any more intimate she'd have to start sending the (fortunately female) guard an anniversary card.

[horsewhispersc]

Not a real good time to fly is it!

[CedarDave]

If any type of biological weapons are on that plane, it very likely points to Iraq!

[skeeter]

FoxNews currently reports that there may be ANTHRAX COURIERS on the two Northwest flights.

Damn. Those crafty right wingers are taking the infamous Coer d'Lane - Tokyo - Seattle route.

[Rheo]

Fox seemed to imply that...whether it is even true or not at this point...who knows....will be listening to see if it is brought up again...only heard it once.

[Fred25]

LATEST NEWS ON RECENT WARNING

[piasa]

LOL... frequent flyer miles...?

[kcvl]

Let's see...if they were carrying anthrax and crashed the plane what would that do? Would the anthrax live through that? If so, what about the planes that were crashed into the WTC and Pentagon? Didn't a pharmacist say that Atta had something wrong with his hands?

[Tai_Chung]

Northwest Flight 8

Taipei - Narita - Seattle - Memphis

Northwest Flight 28

Manila - Narita - San Francisco

[HardStarboard]

I stand corrected - and chagrined. My apologies.

[momofsixgirls]

Fox reported that they were flight 8 and 28

[Delmont]

This is my first post/reply. Was going to mention for more news on this you can visit kiro710.com its Seattle's CBS affilitate and is giving reports but their website has info. Thank you , Delmont C. Roosevelt.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Threads are filled with these morons parading about as Super Patriots and are so predictable and boring. They make Freepers look like paranoid, anti-American idiots.

But the good news is they are always the same ones, slack-jawed screwballs without a brain cell between them.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Are you in the Seattle area?

[momofsixgirls]

my daughter and I were just speculating about the same thing. Whatever it is, I hope they get em.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

momofsixgirls

Is that some kind of perverted screenname? Momo does what to nine (ix) girls?LOL

[Gordian Blade]

It's too soon to be optimistic, but I've been hoping for a break where an anthrax courier and/or mailer would get caught and then hopefully the plot could be unraveled back toward the source by tracing the courier's movements. So if this isn't a false alarm, it could be great news.

[noexcuses]

Fortunately my underwire didn't set off any alarms!!

You got underwire boots? I never heard of those..

Darn - I didn't want to have to say "bra" in such a public forum.....