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Northwest Airlines Plane Diverted To Fort Smith

POSTED: 10:56 a.m. CDT September 11, 2002
UPDATED: 10:56 a.m. CDT September 11, 2002

FORT SMITH, Ark. -- A Northwest Airlines jetliner was diverted to Fort Smith's airport this morning after a report of suspicious activity aboard.

The Associated Press reported that three suspicious passengers were among the 94 people on the plane, which took off from Memphis, Tenn.

Northwest spokeswoman Mary Beth Schubert said Flight 979, an Airbus A-320 bound from Memphis to Las Vegas, departed at 8:45 a.m.

Police and firefighters surrounded the aircraft once on the tarmac at Fort Smith.

No one was injured.

40/29 reported that several streets around the airport were closed.

Information was not immediately available on what action was taken regarding the three questionable passengers.
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Northwest spokeswoman Mary Beth Schubert said Flight 979, an Airbus A-320 bound from Memphis to Las Vegas, departed at 8:45 a.m.

These guys are at least a week behind schedule. They had just got their fake IDs in Tennessee and were now flying to Vegas to meet the other hijackers at a Nevada titty bar. There, they were to tell the others how stupid we Americans were and to not worry about looking suspicious.

Right plot. Wrong timing.