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  • Texas air passenger arrested for getting too rowdy (another attempt to enter cockpit)

    02/11/2004 7:29:28 PM PST · by weegee · 20 replies · 211+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Feb. 11, 2004, 8:15AM | nobyline
    DETROIT- A Texas man was charged with interfering with a Northwest Airlines crew during a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Robert L. Starks, 38, was arrested when the plane landed Monday in Detroit. The oil worker from Burleson, Texas, became boisterous two hours into the eight-hour flight, cursed passengers and the flight crew and tried to enter the cockpit, according to an affidavit by FBI agents Angela Ryan and Terry Booth. The captain considered diverting the flight to Iceland, but changed his mind when Starks fell asleep, according to the affidavit. The agents said Starks admitted to using alcohol and...