Naked French Tunisian Passenger Storms Cockpit and Forces Air France Plane to Land

AP ^ | Tue Aug 20, 1:27 PM ET | AP

[Destro]

Naked Passenger Forces Plane to Land

Tue Aug 20, 1:27 PM ET

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - An Air France flight bound for Oslo, Norway, was forced to make an emergency landing in Belgium after a naked passenger tried to storm the cockpit, authorities said Tuesday.

The flight which left Paris shortly before 20.15 local time on Monday was rerouted to Brussels international airport after the 31-year-old stripped off all his clothes at his seat and tried to force his way into the cockpit, officials at the Brussels prosecutor's office said.

The pilot requested help from Belgian air traffic control which allowed the plane to land. The man, a French national of Tunisian origin was removed from the plane and arrested by police. He was later released without being charged.

Authorities did not give his name of the passenger and did not say why he tried to storm the flight deck.

[discostu]

As has been pointed out by streakers in the past: nobody really wants to tackle a naked man.

[michigander]

How do you say "Hold my grog" and "Watch this" in french?

[putupon]

Why would someone want to enter a small enclosed space with two or three Frenchmen in it?

[OldFriend]

Investigated by Inspector Cleauseau?

[Andy Ross]

I was in Oslo at the weekend: thought it was quite a nice city. Beer prices are ridiculous, and the whisky is so prohibitively expensive that the Norsemen are an uncultured lot, but it's still a nice city.

I would guess that the biggest problem with this nut was that few are prepared to tackle someone with their's hanging out. Kinda like that old cricket streaker footage, eh?

Andrew

[gridlock]

You bad man. You very very bad man.

[RetiredArmy]

No crime. Move along. No guns needed in the cockpit. Move along. Keep the line moving. All peasants keep moving please.

[buccaneer81]

"Gardez mon biere".

[cake_crumb]

"Naked Tunisian storms cockpit. The jokes write themselves."

LOL....

...But I wonder why he was simply released? The naked male French Tunisian cockpit-stormer ought to at LEAST have been given a mandetory vacation in Rubber Room Land. EUroweenies....who can understand them?

[cake_crumb]

GEEEEEZ....I hadn't even THOUGHT of it like that until I saw your "LOL!"

LOL!

[Wm Bach]

What men will do for a little cock pit.

[cake_crumb]

Hmmmm....naked French Tunisian men and EUroweenies....there's a joke in there somewhere.

[Argus]

The man, a French national of Tunisian origin was removed from the plane and arrested by police. He was later released without being charged, and offered a job as an airport security guard in the United States.

[Xenalyte]

Uh, heh heh, heh heh . . . heh heh, heh heh . . . you said "cockpit."

[geaux]

Do as I say or I'll shoot!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[after a naked passenger tried to storm the cockpit]

Naked? I didn't know the French had adopted current US airport security measures.

[Libertina]

He was later released without being charged.
And THESE are the "allies" whose opinion regarding OUR war on terrorism we seek????

[GenXFreedomFighter]

As has been pointed out by streakers in the past: nobody really wants to tackle a naked man.

... and the terrorists find our Achilles' heel.

[discostu]

Well I think if the guy was armed (which would be pretty easy to tell, hard to conceal a weapon when you're not even concealing your tool) people would probably over come that reticense. Then there's the question of what happens when 4 naked terrorists try to take over a plane and everyone points and laughs.

[FormerLurker]

He was later released without being charged.

Say WHAT? There's something bizarre about THIS story other than just the fact that the guy was naked...