Drug, sex romp in airplane bathroom fuels panic

Knight Ridder wire ^ | Tue, Feb. 12, 2002 | JOHN MARZULLI

[testforecho]

Drug, sex romp in airplane bathroom fuels panic

BY JOHN MARZULLI AND BILL HUTCHINSON
New York Daily News

NEW YORK - (KRT) - A randy, drug-fueled romp in a New York-bound jet's rest room sparked a midair terror scare that sent a pair of F-16 fighter jets scrambling, authorities revealed Tuesday.

But the red alert aboard American Airlines Flight 101 from London on Friday gave way to red faces when authorities discovered all the fuss was over two amorous British men.

Police said the passengers, whose names were not released, admitted smoking crack cocaine and having sex in the cramped rest room.

The miles-high ordeal began about 8:15 a.m. Friday on the London-to-New York flight, said an American Airlines spokeswoman.

Flight attendants complained to the pilot that the two men were acting suspiciously, making four or five trips to the rest room together.

"A captain had requested that the local authorities meet the two passengers at the gate at Kennedy," said airline spokeswoman Sonja Whitemon.

Air Force officials overheard the captain's radio dispatch to American Airlines operations and sent two F-16s to intercept the jetliner over the Atlantic Ocean, said Federal Aviation Administration officials.

Whitemon insisted the airplane's crew did not ask for the military escort.

"The captain requested that that not happen because he didn't believe the situation was that serious, but it happened anyway," Whitemon said.

The two passengers were asleep when the plane touched down at JFK and were escorted off by Port Authority, Customs and FAA agents.

No drugs were found on the men, who were not charged with any crimes. Immigration officials denied them entry into the country because they admitted smoking crack in the rest room, law enforcement officials said.

The men were put back on a plane bound for London later Friday, officials said.

[testforecho]

Why, you'd have to be on crack to do something so stupid on an airline flight these days ... oh wait.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

But the red alert aboard American Airlines Flight 101 from London on Friday gave way to red faces when authorities discovered all the fuss was over two amorous British men.

Police said the passengers, whose names were not released, admitted smoking crack cocaine and having sex in the cramped rest room.

[tallhappy]

This is the type of story that shows just how messed up big time we are -- and England even more so.

[lsee]

Oh, UGH!

[ErnBatavia]

It was only a matter of time before the "Mile High Club" got it's first gay chapter....

[WillaJohns]

Police said the passengers, whose names were not released, admitted smoking crack cocaine and having sex in the cramped rest room.

Whew! As long as they weren't smoking a cigarette! Now, THAT would be a crime!

[Khepera]

Typical lack ov control by two SAD (Same Sex Attraction disorder) men. These SAD excuses for human beings don't need to be here. I'm glad they sent them back to their fellow countrymen.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Huh? We sent them back.

[cajungirl]

Oh my!!! Maybe all that groping by the security agents got them all worked up!! I guess we now have to accompany our minor kids and grands to the airplane bathrooms now,,next thing there will be those peepholes they have for the gay community installed. Geeze.

[Michael Barnes]

Mile High Club huh??

[Ground0]

Does this mean that if they were male and female having straight sex, then smoking cigarettes afterward that they would be arrested, incarcerated and paraded in front of the media as deviant, dangerous troublemakers?

I'd wager...

[ArGee]

Bump.

Anyone want to bet which airlines will be the first to offer a "sex class" for passengers who just can't contain themselves on long trips?

Shalom.

[philosofy123]

Is having sex in an airplane bathroom legal?

[Cultural Jihad]

Not to worry. The moral-liberal advocates will claim that no one saw them so therefore it was all done in the privacy of their own rented head, and that the HIV virus is present in only one of every four ejaculate, so the odds were pretty good for the subsequent visitors to the water closet.

[mwl1]

I doubt the story is even true.

[general_re]

Probably, although obviously the same cannot be said for the "smoking crack" part. Howvere, there are undoubtedly many legal things that American Airlines would prefer you not do on board their planes - I don't expect that these gentlemen will be invited to fly AA again any time soon.

Kinda gives a new meaning to "fly the friendly skies", eh? ;)

[FormerLib]

Ah, it never would have happened if they'd been allowed to marry.