Originally Posted by
Mach E Avelli
Poppa Jo, fair comment.
Though if the authorities were not prepared to take him at face value about not really having a bomb, it doesn’t explain why the pax had to sit there for four hours, instead of disembarking pdq.
That's why. If they can't be sure, they're not going to antagonise him into doing something rash by taking away his toys. The pax were comfortable, they had food and drink. No one was getting hurt. Softly, softly.
It's amazing how passengers who paid to sit in a seat for nearly 9 hours were suddenly now "trapped" in them for 3 hours. FFS it's not like they were laying on their stomach with their hands on their head on a bank floor or anything.