Still Some Odd Passengers Out There.
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Still Some Odd Passengers Out There.
The FBI has arrested an apparently drunk airline passenger who struck a flight attendant and opened the door of a plane as it was taxiing for take-off in Los Angeles.
The passenger got out of his seat as the Southwest Airlines jet taxied towards a runway at Los Angeles International Airport, took off one shoe and headed for the back of the plane.
An FBI spokesman says the passenger struck a stewardess on the head after she confronted him, then opened one of the rear doors, depressurising the plane.
The pilot brought the plane back to the terminal gate where the 36-year-old suspect was detained.
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The passenger got out of his seat as the Southwest Airlines jet taxied towards a runway at Los Angeles International Airport, took off one shoe and headed for the back of the plane.
An FBI spokesman says the passenger struck a stewardess on the head after she confronted him, then opened one of the rear doors, depressurising the plane.
The pilot brought the plane back to the terminal gate where the 36-year-old suspect was detained.
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Did not open the door, just moved the handle according to WN.
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Demonstrates once again why drunks should not be boarded. Will they ever learn ?
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Demonstrates once again why drunks should not be boarded. Will they ever learn ?
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While the real culprit is the drunk and disorderly pax our government will react in its predictable illogical, misguided way, defying all rational explanations.
More restrictions will be placed on general aviation, such as tighter restrictions or complete barring from class B or from airports served by the airlines.
Further restrictions on part 91 operators into and out of some of the crucial business centers in this country, not to mention the absolute bizarre restrictions on part 91 international travels.
AOPA has now joined the ranks of those calling for more regulations. A total reversal to its pre 9/11 stance and is demanding that congress pass new laws that will affect private aviation from one end of the spectrum to the other.
Our government has NEVER acted in a rational manor when it comes to passing new laws, why sound we believe they will start now?
Just look at the Airline security bill that federalized all baggage screeners and set newer higher hiring standards only to have congress say after it was passed and signed into law, that it would ease the hiring standards back to pre 9/11 levels and would retain all of the existing handlers!!!
Everything changes and nothing changes…
Watch as private aviation, from the lowly ultralite sitting in some farmers barn to the privately owned and operated G-V of some rock star is regulated into oblivion while AOPA sits on the sidelines and takes claim for saving G/A…
Phil Boyer has no idea who he is laying down in bed with…
Congress is nothing more than a pit of self serving vipers who’s only goal, is to maintain the course of finding ways to have their sorry a$$es reelected.
This sickens me to no end. The government keeps bewailing the mantra we cannot let the terrorist win!
But it appears to me, that with the passing of every new law and the penning of each new regulation aimed at the aviation community it is indeed the terrorist who are winning.
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More restrictions will be placed on general aviation, such as tighter restrictions or complete barring from class B or from airports served by the airlines.
Further restrictions on part 91 operators into and out of some of the crucial business centers in this country, not to mention the absolute bizarre restrictions on part 91 international travels.
AOPA has now joined the ranks of those calling for more regulations. A total reversal to its pre 9/11 stance and is demanding that congress pass new laws that will affect private aviation from one end of the spectrum to the other.
Our government has NEVER acted in a rational manor when it comes to passing new laws, why sound we believe they will start now?
Just look at the Airline security bill that federalized all baggage screeners and set newer higher hiring standards only to have congress say after it was passed and signed into law, that it would ease the hiring standards back to pre 9/11 levels and would retain all of the existing handlers!!!
Everything changes and nothing changes…
Watch as private aviation, from the lowly ultralite sitting in some farmers barn to the privately owned and operated G-V of some rock star is regulated into oblivion while AOPA sits on the sidelines and takes claim for saving G/A…
Phil Boyer has no idea who he is laying down in bed with…
Congress is nothing more than a pit of self serving vipers who’s only goal, is to maintain the course of finding ways to have their sorry a$$es reelected.
This sickens me to no end. The government keeps bewailing the mantra we cannot let the terrorist win!
But it appears to me, that with the passing of every new law and the penning of each new regulation aimed at the aviation community it is indeed the terrorist who are winning.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A passenger holding a shoe punched a flight attendant and opened the rear door of a Southwest Airlines jet as it was about to take off for Las Vegas, authorities said.
"His words were that everybody on the plane was going to hell,'' passenger Michael Fitzhugh said. "You could see the panic of the passengers.''
Police at the Los Angeles airport arrested David Boone, 36, of New Orleans, on Monday for investigation of interfering with a flight crew. He was jailed without bail for a federal court appearance Tuesday.
Also Tuesday, a 20-year-old man was charged in federal court in Chicago with trying to bring four pocket knives, a box cutter, two flares and a bottle of lighter fluid onto an airplane out of Midway Airport.
Security screeners found the items in Steven Paul Johnson's carry-on bag along with a one-way ticket on an American Trans Air flight to Orlando, Fla. He was arrested without incident.
Authorities said they had no explanation for why Johnson, whose hometown police said was Marshalltown, Iowa, was carrying the items.
In California, authorities said the 6-foot-2, 210-pound Boone stood up on the Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas flight as the Boeing 737 was pulling away from the terminal with 142 people aboard.
"He approached the rear of the aircraft with a shoe in his hand and as a flight attendant tried to prevent him from opening the rear door, he hit her in the head with his fist,'' FBI spokesman Matthew McLaughlin said.
The attendant suffered minor injuries. No one else was hurt.
Boone then allegedly opened the door but surrendered when two male passengers moved to subdue him. He was believed to have been drinking.
The shoe contained no trace of explosives, authorities said.
"His words were that everybody on the plane was going to hell,'' passenger Michael Fitzhugh said. "You could see the panic of the passengers.''
Police at the Los Angeles airport arrested David Boone, 36, of New Orleans, on Monday for investigation of interfering with a flight crew. He was jailed without bail for a federal court appearance Tuesday.
Also Tuesday, a 20-year-old man was charged in federal court in Chicago with trying to bring four pocket knives, a box cutter, two flares and a bottle of lighter fluid onto an airplane out of Midway Airport.
Security screeners found the items in Steven Paul Johnson's carry-on bag along with a one-way ticket on an American Trans Air flight to Orlando, Fla. He was arrested without incident.
Authorities said they had no explanation for why Johnson, whose hometown police said was Marshalltown, Iowa, was carrying the items.
In California, authorities said the 6-foot-2, 210-pound Boone stood up on the Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas flight as the Boeing 737 was pulling away from the terminal with 142 people aboard.
"He approached the rear of the aircraft with a shoe in his hand and as a flight attendant tried to prevent him from opening the rear door, he hit her in the head with his fist,'' FBI spokesman Matthew McLaughlin said.
The attendant suffered minor injuries. No one else was hurt.
Boone then allegedly opened the door but surrendered when two male passengers moved to subdue him. He was believed to have been drinking.
The shoe contained no trace of explosives, authorities said.
