(U.S.) Soldier subdued on Florida flight (Reuters)

[Up2Late]

(Sounds like PTSD to me)

Soldier subdued on Florida flight

Fri Jul 7, 2006 01:17 PM ET

TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier recently returned from Iraq tried to force his way into the cockpit of a Tampa-bound Delta Air Lines jet and was subdued by other passengers, a Tampa International Airport spokeswoman said on Friday.

The 24-year-old man was undergoing mental evaluation at a Tampa hospital, and the FBI was investigating whether charges should be filed, airport spokeswoman Brenda Geoghagan said.

The man, Neftali Alexander Laimendez, was flying with his brother to see their mother in Tampa and seek medical attention, Geoghagan said.

As the flight from New York's LaGuardia Airport approached Tampa on Thursday night, he ignored flight attendants' instructions to sit down and fasten his seat belt, and ran up the aisle of the plane and into the first class cabin, Geoghagan said.

"As he is running, he is ramming the cockpit door, falling on the aisle, getting up and repeatedly doing this," she said. "Three or four of the passengers restrained him and held him on the floor."

(more at link) <http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=12775768&src=rss/domesticNews>

[MADem]

1. OMFG....when I read about this initially they said NOTHING about his

military affiliation. OK, a few guesses:

Terminal leave? Discharge due to personality disorder? Just came back from Ye Olde Triangle of Death?

We'll know, eventually.

The kid is lucky there was no marshall on the plane. Otherwise he'd be dead, but then, maybe that's what he was hoping for...

[Roland99]

2. Dupe...previous story on "attacker" being a soldier was combined w/this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2375801&mesg_id=2375801

[maddezmom]

3. duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2375801&mesg_id=2375801