BREAKING NEWS: Police called to Frontier flight at Metro Airport

[Bozita]

Source: Detroit News

Last Updated: September 11. 2011 5:37PM
BREAKING NEWS: Police called to Frontier flight at Metro Airport

Romulus— Metro Detroit Airport officials confirmed a plane from Frontier Airlines requested police presence while en route from Denver.

The plane arrived at 4:22 p.m. and was being taken to a secure area of the airport.

The reason for police presence was not clear. Come back for more on this developing story.


Read more: http://detnews.com/article/20110911/METRO/109110336/BREAKING-NEWS--Police-called-to-Frontier-flight-at-Metro-Airport#ixzz1XgQ4qKFS

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The local Fox station is reporting three people were removed from the plane by police.

[Myrina]

1. Everybody's knickers are in an extra-tight twist today ...

n/t

[harmonicon]

13. Yeah....

I think it's shaping up to be more of a commemorative paranoid racist accusation day than anything else.

[ixion]

19. yep, looks like just that.

:(

[harmonicon]

21. Don't be sad.

It's one of America's largest industries and exports.

[southernyankeebelle]

2. My nephew is getting ready to board for a flight to Austin TX for his job. I

hope he will be ok.

[riderinthestorm]

8. My 14 yr old daughter's on a United flight right now. Stories like this are making me want to heave.

I also find these stories to be extremely distressing. My husband changed her flight to today (I had originally had her booked for tomorrow). He just didn't "remember" that it was 9/11.

I am literally sick to my stomach with fear as I wait her arrival after reading this story.

[classof56]

17. I understand your concern, and I'm sending good wishes for her safe arrival.

Blessings!

[Raschel]

18. My thinking is that terrorists would be more likely to catch the US off guard and do something on an

unexpected day. Still, I know you must be very anxious, and will be glad to exhale when your daughter arrives safely.

[dddem]

28. For this kind of situation, I worry less about terrorists

and more about nutcases.

[Ian David]

30. Maybe 11/9 ... which is 9/11 in European. n/t

[christx30]

27. Someone trying something

to bring down an airplane would be extremely dumb. Like walking, drunk, into a police station armed with a knife and demanding wallets.

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Yawn

Force ten on the pucker factor today I guess.

[Bozita]

4. WDIV reporting a 2nd plane coming into Metro asking for police

Frontier flight involved three people and the plane's restroom(s).


http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/29150722/detail.html
Police To Meet 2nd Plane At Metro Airport
POSTED: Sunday, September 11, 2011


DETROIT -- After police met Frontier Airlines flight 623 at Metro Airport Sunday, another plane with a similar situation asked police to meet the plane at the airport.

Local 4 has learned that the pilot of the second flight called the airport tower to ask for police to meet the plane when it landed.

Stay with Local 4 and ClickOnDetroit.com. for more information as it becomes available.

[AtheistCrusader]

5. I find the news today is a lot more entertaining if you dub over it with Yakkety Sax

[TheDebbieDee]

6. Lol!

I'll bet my blood pressure has dropped 40 points while imagining these events occuring (fighter-escorted passenger jets landing, passengers detained and searched at airport checkpoints, terminals closed down for searhes, etc.), speeded up, with that Benny Hill music going on in the background........

Thanks for the laugh!

[hedgehog]

7. It's all fun and games to be smarter than anyone else until something

bad happens, and then it's not.

[AtheistCrusader]

9. And if it does?

I mean, I don't know if I could take another bloody nose, right?

[jwirr]

20. I have been thinking that this is a case of "better safe than sorry".

It also is a total contrast from booosh in 2001 when he ignored to warnings of 2 people: Tenet, Condi.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

11. 9/11 will never stop people's rights to act like total assholes at the worst time

Don't let the terraists win......

[astonamous]

10. all airports TSA looking for a specific person from Pakistan

This is not hitting the news as far as I can see, but I was told this by a TSA worker about an hour ago. Came in to Wisconsin and then disappeared.

[aquart]

12. Probably just wants to shake Walker's hand.

And thank him for doing so much to destroy America.

[astonamous]

15. That's what my first thought was...why Wisconsin? :Shrug: eom

[SoapBox]

14. It's a freak show of weirdos (the usual airline passengers) and hair trigger TSA types...

I agree with the yawn.

It's 911, 911, 911, 911, 911, 911...and on and on.

Common sense goes out the window when the hyper and undereducated take control.

My personal biggest concern is, that these various stupid type situations, are distractions from REAL security issues that might arise. I have little faith in DHS and TSA...I think that they have slipped into being too BIG and are overly concerned with the show that they put on.

Oh and stupid shit like this at the airlines happens everyday...the masses just don't hear about it.

[louis-t]

16. They locked themselves in the bathroom, I heard.

Morons.

[rhett o rick]

24. yeah, they dont serve liquor in there. nm

[louis-t]

33. Oh, man I got it wrong.

Different flight. The Denver to Detroit one was "suspicious behaviour". It was the JFK one that they locked themselves in the head.

[James48]

22. I got breaking news for you-

the 19 people who hi-jacked four airlines on 9-11-01---- are DEAD.

There are no more airline bombers, hijackers, or guys trying to kill a great number of Americans.

It's all just boogymen you are chasing. They do not exist.


But America is in a perpetual state of fear.


The bastards only win if you let them. Stop letting them.

[rhett o rick]

25. I feel so much better now. nm

[Igel]

26. The facts are the facts.

However, if on 9/10 they starting searching all passengers, had fighter jets scrambled, and insisted on a lot of limitations on carry-on luggage because * had some warning that AQ wanted to attack somewhere in America sometime "soon" after early August, people would have thought it all crazy and outrageous.

If it had started in August by the end of August there'd have been a lot of complaints and probably outbursts from people at the airport.

Until 9/11, then nobody would have ever uttered a peep. Retroactively. Except for the people saying that the 19 had been framed in a Zionist anti-Muslim plot.

It's always easy to make plans for the near future with at least a year's hindsight.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

32. And Ted Bundy's dead too.....

....so I guess we don't need to worry about serial killers anymore either.

[leftynyc]

34. So you can personally guarantee

the safety of over 300 million US citizens? And if you're wrong? Just gonna say ooops?

[wordpix]

36. obviously you don't live in DC or NYC

and ride the subways

[Initech]

23. I just got off a Jetblue flight originating from JFK without incident.

It was eerie though - the streets of Manhattan were quieter than anything I have ever seen before, and there was almost nobody in the Jetblue terminal at JFK, and there was almost no one when I got back to LAX.

[chill_wind]

29. "Frontier flight situation may have been triggered by intimate relations in plane's bathroom."

http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/wayne_county/security-situation-with-flight-from-denver-to-metro-airport

[DeSwiss]

31. K&R

[notadmblnd]

35. apparently it was onl two people and they were having sex in the bathroom

:shrug:

[wordpix]

37. geesh, you'd think they could wait until they landed. Gross place for sex, anyhoo

[No Elephants]

38. Sex after you land doesn't make you a member of the mile high club.

[plumbob]

39. I quit flying when the terrorist Reagan fired all the controllers.

Fly with amateur newbies? NO, thanks.

After a few years, I just never felt the need.

[pampango]

40. James Fallows: Flying While Half-Arab (and Half-Jewish). This One Is Shocking.

Now, read this account from one of those three who escaped with the apparent good fortune of not being charged. Her name is Shoshana Hebshi, and she is an American citizen with a Saudi father and a Jewish mother. She is married and is herself a mother, and she lives in the Midwest. That's her picture, at right, from a column she did about her love of bicycles, two years ago while a graduate student in journalism at Iowa State.

To skip ahead to the punch line, on this flight she was sitting by chance in a row with two Indian-looking passengers, neither of whom knew the other or knew her. But collectively they aroused the suspicion of other passengers or crew, and when the plane landed, heavily armed troops stormed aboard, handcuffed the three of them, and took them off for extensive questioning. After which they were eventually released with "no charges filed." Which is fair enough, considering that like everyone else on the plane they were simply trying to travel from Denver to Detroit and had done absolutely nothing wrong except to have "suspicious" looks.

And, much later, after the authorities begin to establish that she is not a threat:

>>Again, I asked what was going on, and the said judging from their line of questioning that I could probably guess, but that someone on the plane had reported that the three of us in row 12 were conducting suspicious activity. What is the likelihood that two Indian men who didn't know each other and a dark-skinned woman of Arab/Jewish heritage would be on the same flight from Denver to Detroit? Was that suspicion enough? Even considering that we didn't say a word to each other until it became clear there were cops following our plane? Perhaps it was two Indian man going to the bathroom in succession?<<

Her account goes on, at quite some length. I think if you start reading you will continue. I should say that I cannot independently vouch for her version of events -- and it is so specific and detailed that I'm sure it will be challenged by the airline or police if it's inaccurate. But the worst thing about it is that it is so easy to believe. Compared with this, the Vance Gilbert "flying while black" case is nothing.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/09/flying-while-half-arab-and-half-jewish-this-one-is-shocking/244984/

Sounds like four brown people were guilty of happening to sit in the same row.