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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Loon Jet passenger reportedly tries to open door in midair
2006-09-13
A passenger tried to open the exit door of a jet during a cross-country flight on Tuesday night, airline and federal officials said. United Airlines Flight 890 from Los Angeles landed as scheduled at Washington Dulles International Airport at 8:35 p.m., said Amy Kudwa, Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman. No one was injured.

The passenger became unruly about 3 1/2 hours into the flight from Los Angeles and was subdued by other passengers and federal air marshals, said United spokeswoman Megan McCarthy. "After the passenger was restrained, the pilot decided to land at Dulles," McCarthy said. "It wasn't an emergency landing."

Airport police and FBI agents met the flight and were interviewing the passenger, said FBI spokeswoman Debbie Wierman. There were 138 passengers and six crew members on board, McCarthy said.
Gosh, what ethnicity was this person? Guess we'll have to wait for the police report.
Posted by:Zenster

#19  Carrying 2 would guarantee safety, hell carrying three knives and you'd thrive.
Posted by: 6   2006-09-13 14:45  

#18  Reminds me of what Carlos Mencia said. If this had been Southwest Airlines, this guy would be dead.
Posted by: Thoth   2006-09-13 14:18  

#17  Another moonbat shooting for a Darwin award.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-09-13 13:37  

#16  The money quote:

"Any time you hear a flight attendant shout 'please help,' you worry that something pretty bad is going to happen," he said.

I, too, am amazed that this person is still breathing. As far as I am concerned, anyone trying to hijack or bring down a flight in progress has forfeited their life on the spot. You don't just subdue one of these freaks, you disable them, permanently if that's what seems like the right thing to do.

I wrote about this on the net when I got home from work on 9-11-2001. I called it a "Revised Airflight Passenger Protocol". The worst irony of all is that I used to fly with both a folding hunter and Swiss army knife* in my possession. Had I been on one of the 9-11 flights, there would have been a dead terrorist or three.

* I heard an interesting statistic that, in the event of a wilderness plane crash, if you are carrying even a small blade, your chances of survival go up 50%.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-09-13 13:31  

#15  A nutter, or what Mullah Richard said.
Posted by: ex-lib   2006-09-13 12:33  

#14  Cyber Sarge, how about "don't try the shit". Period.
Posted by: twobyfour   2006-09-13 11:24  

#13  I like this article because it shows that things have changed after 9/11. Instead of sitting back and waiting for “someone” to do something the passengers subdued the idiot and then the Air Marshall took over. Note to aspiring Jihadis: DonÂ’t try the same thing again, it wonÂ’t work.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2006-09-13 10:52  

#12  Most likely a nut who in the old days would have never set foot outside a looney bin.
Posted by: ed   2006-09-13 10:39  

#11  Even I know how, Mark Z -- Mr. Wife taught me back when we were doing his Kung Fu blackbelt forms together. It just gives me nightmares even to remember that. I shan't sleep well tonight.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-09-13 10:39  

#10  Nope. It's easy. Just gotta know where to strike. I could teach a 9 year old girl to do it.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-09-13 10:28  

#9  The a**hole tries to open the exit door, is taken down by passengers, and survives to answer questions for the FBI? How? why? Perhaps it's more difficult to kill someone with your bare hands than I thought.
Posted by: Mark Z   2006-09-13 10:06  

#8  I wonder what movie they were showing.
Posted by: Perfesser   2006-09-13 09:22  

#7  "Wolfenberger said the man was held down and had the ever living shit kicked out of him punched by other passengers as he grabbed the man's leg. Air marshals then came and kicked the ever living shit out of him some more took custody of the man."

Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-09-13 09:01  

#6  I often wonder if these incidents aren't just 'tests' by those who wish to kill us. How do we (as passengers, crews & air marshall) react in such occasions? Much could be learned and added to 'future plans' by these killers.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2006-09-13 08:47  

#5  The passenger became unruly... and was subdued by other passengers and federal air marshals

Hope they got plenty of boots in.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2006-09-13 05:25  

#4  Stepping outside for a smoke were you?
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-09-13 02:43  

#3  [MSM] I see NOTHINK ... I know NOTHINK!!!
Posted by: Zenster   2006-09-13 02:27  

#2  COMMANDANT KLINK > Sch-h-h-u-u-u-ul-l-l-t-t-t-z-z-z!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-09-13 02:09  

#1  Scwartz?
Posted by: Phineter Thraviger1073   2006-09-13 02:04  

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