Unruly passengers cause 2 flights to change course

[proud2BlibKansan]

DENVER -- Disruptive passengers caused two commercial airplanes to be diverted Friday, with military jets scrambling to escort a San Francisco-bound flight into a Colorado airport, authorities said.

The incidents come amid heightened concern over airline security after a Nigerian man allegedly tried to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day. And in London late Friday, police arrested three passengers after removing them from a jetliner bound for Dubai. Officials described it only as a security incident.

Two F-16s were launched at 11:44 a.m. to catch up with AirTran Airways Flight 39 from Atlanta to San Francisco after a report that an intoxicated passenger had locked himself in a bathroom, the Colorado-based North American Aerospace Defense Command said.

The jets arrived over Colorado Springs Airport as the captain - who AirTran said had decided to divert the plane - landed there around noon, NORAD spokeswoman Stacey Knott said.

more . . . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/09/AR2010010900203.html

[Turbineguy]

1. When you can be bankrupted by getting sick,

I guess getting bankrupted by leasing a plane for a few hours doesn't seem so bad.

[gateley]

2. We're just running scared stomping out these little fires. It's sad. nt

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. BOY oh BOY - did them terrorists win or WHAT???

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We get our panties in an uproar over anything now

And sacrificing our young and talented in useless wars!

Terrorists have won by our immature reaction to 911.

Every time we kill an innocent civilian in the East with our "war on terror" - we create more hate that may bring the West to its knees.

WE ARE NOT WINNING

(sigh)

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. We're winning the battle against disruptive passengers

:evilgrin: