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.
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