Airline escorted by F16 to IAH airport Houston TX

News | 9-11-02 | AV

[antivenom]

See title...man possibly with a knife...

[Frank_Discussion]

WOW! Someone must have heard me SHOUTING! :-)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/748690/posts?page=231#231

[CFW]

By Associated Press, 9/11/2002 14:53
HOUSTON (AP) Air Force fighters escorted an American Airlines flight to Houston after a disturbance was reported on board Wednesday, officials said.

The airplane was on the ground at Bush Intercontinental Airport.

''We seem to have some sort of situation,'' Houston Airport System spokesman Ernie DeSoto said. ''It is surrounded. I really don't have many details at this moment.''

DeSoto said U.S. air marshals were aboard the flight, which reportedly had been headed to Dallas.

Representatives of American, the FBI and the Federal Aviation Administration did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Fed Marshalls still on plane...plane on tarmac...surrounded and ready to be stormed...

I have a feeling this is a copycat/lone nutcase situation. Somebody capitalizing on the big stage of 9/11, perhaps? I don't see trained terrorists trying to hijack a plane using only one man with a knife. Not only that, but they seem to change their targets and methodology from one attack to the next. Waiting to hear his name and nationality...

[Dog]

Here you go....

F-16 escorts small plane

[antivenom]

I STILL know why I will never fly American airlines...

[Dog]

Did they really say attempted hijacking??

[antivenom]

YES...and the FBI said the incident with the 3 men is NOT a terror incident...I am waiting to find out the "ethnic" description...will keep you posted...

[kinghorse]

Hmmm. George Bush intercontinental. Would I want that name tied to some infamous act for all of history if I was an enemy combatant? I still feel nuke plants should come equipped with humvees and stingers. --Looks nervously towards South Texas Nuclear Project(STNP) in Palacios TX.

[StolarStorm]

Every incident is going to be a copycat because the Government is in cover up mode. Don't want to frighten the sheeple now do we?

[antivenom]

It would hurt more to "bomb" a refinery...

[fivecatsandadog]

I wonder if that's what happened with the 3 or 4 that locked themselves in the privy on the NW flight to Las Vegas today. Maybe they chickend out...

[hispanarepublicana]

Is this the Houston FBI speaking on Houston TV, or what?

[Shermy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/748832/posts

[kassie]

Thanks for the update.

[Private Joker]

Preparation H - as in howitzer.

[Naspino]

If the FBI has said this was an attempted hijacking where is the news? None of the major news networks are carrying it.

[antivenom]

FBI agent was on radio...he said they are investigating the "situation"...apparently the person WAS removed from the flight...might have been another person involved...will keep you posted...

[antivenom]

http://www.khou.com/news/local/KHOU020911_rc_BushInterIncident.113a18b0.html

[antivenom]

FBI reports attempted highjacking on American Airlines jet at Bush Intercontinental

09/11/2002

HOUSTON (KHOU) -- An American Airlines flight was escorted Wednesday afternoon by F-16's to Bush Intercontinental Airport after a disturbance was reported on board.

Air Marshalls contacted the Houston Police Department after they found a folding knife on Dallas/Nashville bound American Airlines flight 1702.

The four person crew of the 50 passenger Fokker 100 jet turned around 42 minutes into the flight.

"We seem to have some sort of situation," Houston Airport System spokesman Ernie DeSoto said around 1:30 p.m. CDT. "It is on the ground. It is surrounded. I really don't have many details at this moment."

One man had an unidentified object in his hand. Marshalls felt uncomfortable and insisted on returning to Houston.

Stay tuned to khou.com and Channel 11 for more information on this incident.

[antivenom]

2 men in custody...still don't know the ethnicity...