Unreasonable passenger frightens US air crew on another flight
Monday 28th December, 2009
An unruly passenger was detained on Sunday after he abused staff on the same Northwest Airlines route on which a Nigerian man allegedly tried to blow up Northwest Flight 253 just before landing.
The plane was on the same route and carried the same flight number as one on Friday.
This time, the flight landed in Detroit, Michigan, where security personnel arrested a passenger who had locked himself in the airplane bathroom for a long time after abusing staff.
The pilot radioed for emergency help and, on landing, the plane was immediately boarded by security officials who found a businessman passenger who became sick during the flight.
Passengers were quickly evacuated and luggage was spread out on the tarmac for sniffer dogs to check.
Airline security had been tightened since Friday, when authorities say 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to explode a substance that had been strapped to his body. He is now under arrest.
Heightened security measures for air travel were immediately put in place by President Obama after the Abdulmutallab incident, although administration officials have said they have no indication that Friday's attempted attack was part of a larger terrorist plot.
Nevertheless, the officials have said Abdulmutallab told them he had received training for the attack from al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen.
It has since emerged that Abdulmutallab was listed in a US government intelligence database, but had not been put on the "no-fly list."
Monday 28th December, 2009
An unruly passenger was detained on Sunday after he abused staff on the same Northwest Airlines route on which a Nigerian man allegedly tried to blow up Northwest Flight 253 just before landing.
The plane was on the same route and carried the same flight number as one on Friday.
This time, the flight landed in Detroit, Michigan, where security personnel arrested a passenger who had locked himself in the airplane bathroom for a long time after abusing staff.
The pilot radioed for emergency help and, on landing, the plane was immediately boarded by security officials who found a businessman passenger who became sick during the flight.
Passengers were quickly evacuated and luggage was spread out on the tarmac for sniffer dogs to check.
Airline security had been tightened since Friday, when authorities say 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to explode a substance that had been strapped to his body. He is now under arrest.
Heightened security measures for air travel were immediately put in place by President Obama after the Abdulmutallab incident, although administration officials have said they have no indication that Friday's attempted attack was part of a larger terrorist plot.
Nevertheless, the officials have said Abdulmutallab told them he had received training for the attack from al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen.
It has since emerged that Abdulmutallab was listed in a US government intelligence database, but had not been put on the "no-fly list."
