A U.S. Airways jet flying to North Carolina was diverted to Oklahoma City after an air marshal subdued a passenger involved in an incident with a flight attendant, an airline spokesman said.
Law enforcement officers were questioning the passenger after the jet landed at Will Rogers World Airport, said Morgan Durrant, a U.S. Airways spokesman. He did not disclose the nature of the problem between the passenger and the flight attendant.
The Airbus A321, which left Phoenix at 6:15 a.m., was to resume its flight to Charlotte, Durrant said. There were 141 people including crew members on board.
Also Friday, an American Airlines flight from Manchester, England, to Chicago was diverted to Bangor, Maine, for security reasons, authorities said.
FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz declined to discuss the nature of the problem.
Flight to Chicago lands in Maine
BANGOR, Maine Another trans-Atlantic flight has been diverted.
Officials say the flight from Manchester, England to Chicago has landed instead in Bangor, Maine.
A spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration says the American Airlines flight was diverted for security reasons. She provided no additional information.
Police confirm there's been an incident at the airport, but they're also not elaborating.
Federal agents are on their way.
A reporter for the Bangor Daily News says the plane is on the tarmac with its engines off, and that the local bomb squad has been called.
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They're all really nervous these days. I spoke with a Delta pilot today and told him I thought he had a really tough job. He agreed.