Passenger tries to get into cockpit.(United flight 855)

AP (USA Today) ^ | wire

[Buzznutt]

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine authorities detained a passenger aboard a United Airlines jetliner Thursday after he tried to enter the cockpit during a flight from Miami, officials and the airline said. The unidentified passenger was restrained by the plane's crew and later arrested by police after the flight landed as scheduled in Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital, said Jorge Reta, an Air Force spokesman. Authorities did not identify the passenger, but local reports said the man was reportedly a Uruguayan citizen. United Airlines said it had notified local authorities and the FBI about the incident. In a statement, United said flights to and from Argentina would continue as scheduled. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2002 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[buffyt]

Flew from Houston to LA early january and had no problems.....
Just flew on United to Denver and back this past weekend, got home last night. Had a calm flight. But it took TWO hours of waiting in line at Denver airport to wait to go through security and we missed our flight and had to take a later one. Denver airport is so slow with security checks, Houston and L A are fast! Denver only had about 6 people doing security checks and about a thousand people waiting in line to go through security - and I think that it is much more dangerous this way.... backed up security lines full of a thousand (anxious, harried) people, and only about 6 people watching them. what an opportunity for terrorists to pull something right there at the airport. Plus, they stop all cars coming to airport, and check inside your trunk... well, law abiding people stop for the truck inspection. But do you think a terrorist with a car bomb would stop and open his trunk for inspection? or would he just step on the gas and get to the airport and blow it up before anyone stops him? Dumb security ideas, all window washing! What is making skies safer is passengers and flight crews who will jump on an unruly passenger! My son said this is not a good time to ACT UP on a flight! He said everyone is just looking for a chance to jump on a terrorist and beat him to a pulp in flight!

Barb

[LibertyGirl77]

Um....Urguguay is in South America and her people are not black.

[hellinahandcart]

Why do I have the feeling we're going to have to address you as "elfman3" in the future?

[LibertyGirl77]

I mean Uruguay. Look before posting, d'oh!

[wimpycat]

Interfering with a flight crew is serious business. But, as it's being described so far, he didn't try to hurt anyone, so I doubt they can charge him with anything else at this point. The Shoebomber was initially charged with interfering with a flight crew, if I remember correctly.

[wimpycat]

Maybe he got Uruguay mixed up with Uganda. Hey, are you going my way or Uruguay!

[elfman2]

" Why do I have the feeling we're going to have to address you as "elfman3" in the future?"

{smile} It the moderators are satirically challenged, you may.

[BlessedBeGod]

Pickled eye? Eeeewwwwwwwww!

[areafiftyone]

[tracer]

I heard that they axed him politely to return to his seat and he refused. After they axed him again they then learned that he had a split personality.

They chided him that if he "had half a brain" he would cooperate, but by then he was talking out of both sides of his mouth. It was reported that the last thing on his mind was.....

[realpatriot]

"Well IF the crew did open the door without the door failing, then that crew member who open the door should be FIRED immediately!"

Question, are toilet facilities available to the crew? Seriously, I don't know.

[onedoug]

"Long driver, the Laahma." Bill Murray, Caddie Shack

[cajungirl]

LOL!!!!

[GussiedUp]

The lunatics are running the assylum

Yep and they have been since 1992. Bush & Co need to find out where the leftovers are hiding and get rid of them.

[RCW2001]

CNN interview passenger live now...

[KirklandJunction]

Toilets for the crew? NOT on typical airliners.

Sadly, in the 60's Lockheed proposed a seperate cabin up front, with toilet, food and drink, and with a seperate exterior door such that it was physically impossible to get into the cockpit from the passenger section.

Airlines and FAA nixed the concept.

[Denver Ditdat]

Question, are toilet facilities available to the crew? Seriously, I don't know.

The crew uses the same lavs as the passengers. There is no provision to for crews to answer the call of nature on the flight deck. I guess we could always retrofit relief tubes into the cockpit (hey, it works for the military) but what would we do for female flight crew members?

[BearCub]

Pickled eye? Eeeewwwwwwwww!

Not quite pickled but intensely bloodshot and effectively blind for five or ten minutes. Was not pretty at all. Lesson learned.

-bc

[OldFriend]

The co pilot opened the cockpit door??????????????????????? Say it isn't so! What the heck was he thinking?????????????? He should be fired immediately.

[OldFriend]

LOL not serious, but can't you see it now!!!