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Passenger tries to storm cockpit on plane from Cardiff
BBC ^ | 01/25/10 | Staff

Posted on 01/25/2010 10:03:29 AM PST by OldDeckHand

A man is being questioned by police after trying to force his way into the cockpit of a plane flying from Cardiff to the Canary Islands.

He was overpowered and restrained by passengers and flight attendants on the 0810 GMT Thomson Airways service.

He was arrested by police when the aircraft landed safely at Las Palmas airport in Gran Canaria.

Thomson Airways said the man "demonstrated aggressive behaviour towards customers and crew".

The company said: "Thomson Airways can confirm that a passenger became disruptive during flight TOM 6102, flying from Cardiff to Las Palmas airport, Gran Canaria, on 25 January, 2010.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 201001; 20100125; aviation; canaryislands; cardiff; plane; terror; wales
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To: AmishDude

see #40


41 posted on 01/25/2010 10:42:17 AM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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To: OldDeckHand

Since this is Britain, are the passengers going to be prosecuted for restraining him?


42 posted on 01/25/2010 10:43:23 AM PST by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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To: OldDeckHand

Probably just drunk


43 posted on 01/25/2010 10:43:29 AM PST by montag813
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To: OldDeckHand
I'll take "It's a Mohammad" for $500, Alex.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

44 posted on 01/25/2010 10:54:58 AM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: OldDeckHand

no doubt a Jewish guy with a funny box strapped to his head...


45 posted on 01/25/2010 10:57:08 AM PST by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: OldDeckHand
Amish? Swedish?

An angry Lutheran, probably.

let me hazard a guess..............Lithuanian................

Who cares about his national origin or religion...

EMERGENCY, EMERGENCY...SOMEONE READ HIM HIS MIRANDA RIGHTS SO HE CAN LAWYER-UP ASAP!!!

46 posted on 01/25/2010 11:03:37 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies (Obama: Psychopathy in Motion)
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To: livius
He decided that he was on the wrong plane and wanted to change planes.

Do you mean while it was in the air???

47 posted on 01/25/2010 11:03:51 AM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

48 posted on 01/25/2010 11:13:34 AM PST by ichabod1 ( I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet.)
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To: Fido969
David Hasselhoff?

49 posted on 01/25/2010 11:15:47 AM PST by ichabod1 ( I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet.)
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To: OrioleFan
Muslims need to go through intensive screening and then be made to sit in the back of the Airbus

Actually, they should be duct-taped hand and foot, and placed in very small, individual, double-locked boxes, each labeled "Caution: Dangerous Animal," in the cargo hold.

50 posted on 01/25/2010 11:19:00 AM PST by ScottinVA (Glad to see Demonic Unhinged (DU) highlights and attacks my FR comments!)
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To: OldDeckHand

Probably a drunken Brit. This happens remarkably often with flights from Britain. Though, usualy that are flights to Eastern Europe where they go over the weekend for cheap binge drinking.


51 posted on 01/25/2010 11:20:24 AM PST by avid (Please consider the environmental impact of not printing this posting!)
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To: OldDeckHand

I’m a retired flight attendant. Not long before 9/11, a certain family’s travel plans were disrupted due to a mechanical or a cancelled flight prior to boarding my flight.

Attempting to compensate them, United put them in first class....BUT there were only two empty seats available. The father told the mother and child to take the two first class seats; he sat in the second row in coach on an aisle seat.

Apparently the situation bothered him because he wasn’t given a first class seat. Within a minute or so after takeoff, he arose from his seat and began pounding on the cockpit door, “Yelling, I WANT TO SIT IN FIRST CLASS!”

I got up from my jumpseat and escorted him back to his seat. I calmed him down, but he was still upset that he wasn’t sitting in first class.

If that happened today, he would have been wrestled to the floor and cuffed!

Upon landing, the customer service rep took a report from the captain and me. She said this guy would be put on United’s “Do Not Fly” list.


52 posted on 01/25/2010 11:21:41 AM PST by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real they have some pretty good ideas.)
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To: valkyry1
Sure seems to be a lot of these events nowdays.

Predators tend to stalk the weak. We now have a policy of giving these predators 3 hots and a cot (and a lawyer, to boot), whereas we used to blow them into a fine pink mist before, or throw them into a cage and drill them for intel. Kinda scary to know that I'm on the front line on the war on terror whenever I get on a commercial plane, but ya' know what? I up for it.

53 posted on 01/25/2010 11:53:58 AM PST by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: OldDeckHand

Frisbeterian?


54 posted on 01/25/2010 12:00:01 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (Get rid of the dirty moderates. Get rid of them,)
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To: OldDeckHand
One hears so much about this so I just skimmed the article. Was she a grandma, 77, who didn't care for the in-flight DVD?
55 posted on 01/25/2010 12:01:49 PM PST by Realman30
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To: Gondring
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Hell no, and it's not over now.

56 posted on 01/25/2010 12:10:44 PM PST by VRWCmember
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To: OldDeckHand

I guess Amish. And he wanted some peanuts!


57 posted on 01/25/2010 1:22:21 PM PST by b4its2late (Before you can control a horse, you have to break it. Sound familiar?)
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To: OldDeckHand

Ingmar Ibn Saud Ibn Khalidiji Ibn Usama


58 posted on 01/25/2010 1:49:59 PM PST by ZULU (God guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: incredulous joe; All
Vegan? Polygamist? Jacobite?

You guys are getting it all wrong!

It was the Jehovah's Witnesses yet again!

They just wanted to share the TRUE Word of God with the pilot and copilot.

59 posted on 01/25/2010 1:55:12 PM PST by bayliving (1 if by land, 2 if by sea and 3 if by our own government.)
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To: silverleaf
An angry Lutheran, probably.

Probably a squarehead (Swede). But the Danes can have tempers as well.

60 posted on 01/25/2010 4:41:36 PM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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