Posted on 12/27/2001 6:15:18 AM PST by Elkiejg
ARMED police have boarded a Sydney-bound United Airlines flight in London and forced three passengers off the plane.
United Airlines are refusing to comment on the incident, with a spokesman for the airline in the UK confirming only that the flight from Heathrow to Sydney via San Francisco had been delayed.
But British police have confirmed armed police boarded the plane and removed three passengers.
Flight UA 931, from London to Sydney via San Francisco left Heathrow terminal as scheduled at about 2pm (GMT) on Monday afternoon (0100 AEDT Tuesday).
According to a teenage passenger, Jack Richardson from Manly in Sydney's northern beaches, the plane stopped on the runway and the pilot advised of mechanical problems over the aircraft's public address system.
"The pilot comes on and says he's not at liberty to tell us exactly what happened," he told ABC Radio.
"But the fact is a man from first class, a man from business class and a man from economy class had all been arrested and escorted off the plane."
Mr Richardson said the plane returned to the terminal, where armed police boarded it and escorted the passengers away.
He said about 100 remaining passengers were told to disembark and were subject to an extensive body and luggage search.
The flight eventually took off four hours behind schedule, Mr Richardson said.
A spokeswoman from the Metropolitan Police Service in London said the airline had sought the assistance of police to remove three passengers from the flight.
"At about 3.15pm (GMT) on Monday (0215 AEDT Tuesday), three passengers on a flight from London Heathrow to San Francisco were asked to leave the plane by police at the request of the airline company," she said.
"No offences were discovered, no arrests were made and there was no further action taken."
The basis on which the airline had sought the passengers' removal was a matter for United Airlines to decide whether to reveal, the police spokeswoman said.
A spokeswoman for United Airlines in the UK, Ruth Hornsby, confirmed the flight had been delayed but declined to provide further details.
"United Airlines' main priority is the safety and security of its passengers and staff," she told AAP from London.
The airline's Australian spokesman, Ian Nicholas, also declined to provide further details of the incident, saying it was a police matter.
This report appears on news.com.au.
LOL! Does felching in an aircraft lavatory admit one to the mile-high club? :)
The only bedrock requirements are intelligence and wit to go with being blonde. I gather that all four members of this small but growing FR Blonde Club meet those requirements and are therefore members in good standing.
I trust that answers your questions adequately?
Congressman Billybob
She may be one of you; she is decidedly NOT one of "us." To be "us" requires an IQ.
I wish I COULD find another thread; her banality oozes all over the friggin' place. Anyone who has to shout "look at me!" with colored fonts has not attained the maturity level or literary ability to communicate through content.
I wish I COULD find another thread; her banality oozes all over the friggin' place. Anyone who has to shout "look at me!" with colored fonts has not attained the maturity level or literary ability to communicate through content.
Your hostility indicates to me there are larger issues at play here. Seek counseling. As for her literary ability, I wasn't aware it was requisite for this "cultured" forum.
You cant step sideways in this forum without either planting your foot squarely in a Harry Potter thread or a deaf Rush thread.
Do what everyone else does, move along til you find a thread you like.
It is hardly shocking to hear such a venomous comment from a Westchester resident, you "friggin" (to steal your literary ability) downstaters look at most everything as if society at large was here to service your wants and desires.
It "aint" workin here Jack.
Spare us your mis-placed hostility. It is plain to all here you are tranferring your agression regarding other issues to CGEB, as the offense was hardly meritous of your viper-like response.
Now, if you can't play nice - turn the computer off and return to PBS with some Earl Grey and scones and continue weeping into your hanky that dumba** downstaters elected that steamy turd.
Hi...Revelation 911,
I nearly fell off my chair when I read your very apt statement...
"Now, if you can't play nice - turn the computer off and return to PBS with some Earl Grey and scones and continue weeping into your hanky that dumba** downstaters elected that steamy turd."
YOU must be referring to...Old "Crusty" Pant Suit!
Yes! ALL New Yorkers are Paying the Price for their CHOICE of elected politicians.
After 9-11, a lot of Blind Eyes were Opened!
Maybe... The Next Election for Senator, New Yorkers will use their collective Voting Power and put Old "Crusty" out to Pasture!
***REMEMBER NEW YORK...GROUND ZERO IS: The Clintoon LEGACY!
No matter what color font one cloaks it in.
Thats it young man - go to your room and no dinner, crumpets or PBS Frontline. Until you learn to play nicely, you are forbidden clarinet lessons.
now lets look at your comment. Hmmmmm long-winded stupidity indefensible.I urge all to look at his/her last few posts in other threads and you'll note that (it) has cleverly responded with NOT and Excellent analysis- both seem rather stupid to me, yet I'm from Rochester where we scratch our humps on fenceposts and hunt for dinner. Can you spend a moment and tell us how that ads to the conversation?
Spare the stone throwing - she's got colored fonts, youve got one word responses and I've got the heebies from rubbing up against downstaters and must now shower.
It's "dumb blonde", dumba** - both of you need to worry about more serious things - or are you both here to disrupt ? How are things at DU?
I prefer her "royalcrustsuitedness"
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