Breaking- Airliner emergency landing in Ft. Smith Ark. Three mideast types locked in bathroom.

Fox 13 news memphis station | september 11, 2002 | Drawsing

[Drawsing]

My wife just called me with this. I can't find it anywhere else. She saw it on the local TV channel.

[steveegg]

All those in favor of firing Mineta...

Aye!!!!

[dighton]

WWCGEBD?

If you know what that means, you're spending way too much time here. That DEFINITELY includes me.

;-)

[Frank_Discussion]

Yes. My heart sinks, thinking this is probably the case. Hopefully, "LET'S ROLL!!" will ring out clearly, and early from the passengers on such flights!

[steveegg]

But the sunspots are where the enemy is hiding, hoping that you won't see him coming out of the sun :-)

[Danette]

follow up from AP News
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FORT SMITH, Ark. -- Federal officials said Wednesday's diversion of a passenger flight to Fort Smith's airport was not related to terrorism.


BULL$HIT

[BlueLancer]

"WWCGEBD?"

"What Would Cary Grant Ensconced in Bed Do"?

[steveegg]

Maybe a couple of amateurs that don't know that the airplane lavatory isn't the best place to shave (if there were serious hijackers out there, we'd be in a Code Red).

[carenot]

Touch name with curser, look on the status bar at bottom of browser. It shows the number there.

[Ingtar]

Jet from Memphis diverted after report of suspicious passengers

FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) - A Northwest Airlines jet was diverted to Fort Smith's airport Wednesday after three passengers locked themselves in a bathroom, officials said. No one was injured.

Flight 979, an Airbus A320 traveling from Memphis, Tenn., to Las Vegas, landed at Fort Smith late Wednesday morning, Northwest spokeswoman Mary Beth Schubert said. The plane carried 94 passengers and a crew of five.

Police and firefighters surrounded the aircraft, which was parked at the end of a runway.

Other passengers "were taken off and they are negotiating through the bathroom," said Jennifer Gordon, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Emergency Management.

Jim Harris, a spokesman for Gov. Mike Huckabee, said the men appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent.

But in Washington, federal officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said the incident was not believed to be a terrorist incident. The Bush administration had raised the nation's terror alert warning to its second highest level Tuesday - code orange - signaling a "high risk" of attack with the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at hand.

It wasn't clear who reported suspicions to the airline.

The TSA said three men had been acting strangely on the plane, but gave no specifics beyond saying they locked themselves in a bathroom. A fourth passenger also was detained, but his precise role was not immediately known.

The 188th Fighter Wing of the Arkansas Air National Guard said it did not provide a military escort for the Airbus, but an F-16 fighter jet landed at the municipal airport about 20 minutes after the Northwest plane.

The Airbus took off from Memphis at 8:47 a.m. Central time and was scheduled to arrive at Las Vegas at 10:19 a.m. Pacific time.
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Associated Press writer Scott Lindlaw contributed to this report from Washington.

Source 5 News Website in Memphis
http://www.wmcstations.com/global/Frameset.asp?P=/default.asp

[swarthyguy]

LOL! The vision of Reserovoir Dogs with some scumbag jihadi throatcutter in the chair instead of the cop.....

[Frank_Discussion]

MY GOD!! When will these people learn that letting us know when we're beeing attacked is a GOOD thing?!

[NeoCaveman]

The vision of Reserovoir Dogs with some scumbag jihadi throatcutter in the chair instead of the cop.....

Now that thought just made my day.

[steveegg]

Maybe tangentally related (these jokers weren't smart enough to pick a better place to meet than an airplane toilet).

[Poohbah]

CGEB = classygreeneyedblonde, a now-banned freeper (who may have been in drag)

[who knows what evil?]

FORT SMITH, Ark. -- Federal officials said Wednesday's diversion of a passenger flight to Fort Smith's airport was not related to terrorism.

Snork! What are we...idiots? The Israelis would have never let these bozos on the plane in the first place. Racial profiling...it's a beautiful thing, and IT SAVES LIVES!!!

[carenot]

negotiating? Execute them.

Nah, just leave 'em in there and let 'em talk to the door. Don't say nothin' to 'em.

[steveegg]

There's a thought. Make sure the pilots have all they can eat and then some.

[ofMagog]

LadyX:
I'm trying to get some sleep here!
What's all the racket about Scuttlebutt, razorback-bert, and humblegunner being in Arkansas? How'd they get there?

Send Cobby and beowolf to see if they can bail them out.

The bail fund could probably use a few donations.

Going back to sleep. Thud was screaming for breakfast.

[Constitution Day]

Good:
If you know what that means, you're spending way too much time here. That DEFINITELY includes me.

Better:
If you know what that means, you're spending way too much time here. That DEFINITELY includes me.

[dighton]

"What Would Cary Grant Ensconced in Bed Do"?

C'mon, you're just denying your FR addiction. Let's start by "admitting we were powerless."

;-)