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TexasTowelie

(111,964 posts)
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 09:20 PM Sep 2015

Charges dismissed for 2 in Southwest Airlines flight interference case (Chaldeans from San Diego)

AMARILLO -- Two of six passengers charged with flight crew interference after a Southwest Airlines flight was diverted to Amarillo had their charges dropped Thursday.

The US Attorney’s Office filed a motion to dismiss criminal charges against Saiman Hermez and Ghazwan Shaba, and U.S. Magistrate Judge Clinton E. Averitte granted the dismissal.

The remaining four, Jonathan Petras, Essa Solaqa, Khalid Yohana and Wisam Shaker, had their cases merged into a single, separate one. The outcome of that case is still pending.

The charges stem from an Aug. 31 incident. A federal criminal complaint alleged the men, who were sitting together on a flight from San Diego to Chicago, repeatedly refused to put up their tray tables and their seats and refused to comply with a flight attendant’s orders.

Read more: http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2015-09-24/charges-dismissed-2-southwest-airlines-flight-interference-case#.VgSgupfziBY

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Charges dismissed for 2 in Southwest Airlines flight interference case (Chaldeans from San Diego) (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2015 OP
9/11 destroyed pleasant air flight olddots Sep 2015 #1
In that regard it wasn't much different Major Nikon Sep 2015 #2
 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
1. 9/11 destroyed pleasant air flight
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 09:28 PM
Sep 2015

Being safe shouldn't mean being uncomfortable but the scum that run world don't fly commercial .

Major Nikon

(36,818 posts)
2. In that regard it wasn't much different
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 09:55 PM
Sep 2015

People still got drunk and did stupid shit on planes. The difference was they never got prosecuted for it because local cops had no jurisdiction and the feds rarely got involved.

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