United Airlines Flight Diverted: Passenger Had Vaseline and A Screwdriver

[kpete]

CNN - reporting that she was "tied up" and had vaseline, screwdriver, matches and a note mentioning al Queda...



United Airlines flight from London diverted Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:46 AM ET

BOSTON (Reuters) - A Washington-bound United Airlines flight from London was diverted to Boston on Wednesday after an onboard incident, and officials were searching the plane's luggage, a Boston airport official said.

"There was a supposed confrontation on board. There may have been a banned item on board and they are now searching the luggage," said Phil Orlandella, spokesman at Boston's Logan International Airport.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-08-16T144612Z_01_N16477412_RTRUKOC_0_US-TRANSPORT-BOSTON.xml


edit to add this from Raw Story:

Excerpts from the AP report follow....

An overseas flight from London's Heathrow Airport to Washington, D.C., was diverted to Boston Wednesday after the pilot declared an emergency because of a passenger disturbance.

A female passenger aboard United Flight 923 had Vaseline, a screw driver, matches and a note referencing al Qaeda, according to Phil Orlandella, spokesman for Boston's Logan International Airport.

The flight, with 182 passengers and 12 crew members landed safely, United spokesman Brandon Borrman said. Mr. Borrman said a female passenger was spotted engaging in some "suspicious" activity, but he could not immediately say what the activity was.

State Police and federal agencies took control of the plane after it landed.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/AP_Terror_threat_diverts_LondonDC_flight_0816.html

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Why is this report

reading more like a porn novel rather then a terrorist threat?

I mean vaseline & a screwdrive? I can think of a few things to do with that, but blowing up a plane isn't one of them.

[Philosoraptor]

2. a sexy story huh?

[LSK]

3. no sex threads!!!

Oh wait, this isnt the lounge!

:rofl:

[berner59]

10. the coverage is insane...

CNN had some guy speculating what could have been the problem with her/family problems/unstable...OH STOP!!!

Bush is drooling over this..."look how safe we're making everyone!!"...what crap...obviously she was able to bring things on that shouldn't be...THAT's the story folks...

[INdemo]

31. Somehow I believe this was a set up and coordinated

with the airline..We will never hear anymore about this..It was an incident to make GB look as if the war on "terra" is succeeding.

[FearofFutility]

35. Maybe to the freepers, but this is .....well........

:rofl:

[Mr_Spock]

4. Hehe - my first thought as well.

We'll see how it plays out shortly...

[plcdude]

6. first thing

that came to my mind as well. I guess dirty minds think alike.

[dipsydoodle]

9. He obviously noticed the No Smoking sign

I think that joke is c. 1957 - maybe ealier.

:rofl:

[babylonsister]

12. A screwdriver? Do tell and hopefully pain isn't involved!

:rofl:

[MrCoffee]

5. Please let me be the first to say...

Lube on a Plane!

Please let me be first. I want it so bad.

[Philosoraptor]

7. hell, if you can believe box cutters,

then vaseline and a screwdriver as a weapon is not much of a stretch.

[electron_blue]

14. just checking - box cutters are now allowed, but no water bottles, right?

I do really think this is the latest. pls correct me if I'm wrong.

[LiberalEsto]

8. What brand of vodka

was used for the screwdriver?

[MrCoffee]

11. Skyy?

too obvious?

[berner59]

16. cutting to Tony Snow now...

Going to comment on this...what kind of crazy effing world do we live in???

[CoffeeCat]

15. Jinx...

...for thinking the same thought about the screwdriver being a drink!

Cheers! :toast:

[CoffeeCat]

13. You mean a screwdriver...like the drink?

Hey, if this broad boarded a plane with Vaseline in one hand and a drink in the
other--I doubt terrorism was on her mind!

The matches were for the cigarette she would smoke after her admission into the mile-high-club!

You go girl! Party on!

[MrCoffee]

17. smoking is prohibited inside the cabin

now you just gotta put a patch on afterward, which is totally not the same. ruined the joy of flight, imho.

[CoffeeCat]

18. I'll make a prediction...

"....and a note mentioning al Queda..."

That part of the story will be completely debunked.

Someone is adding details to make the stories more scary-boo!

[DoYouEverWonder]

19. Maybe she was reading DU

we talk about al Qaeda all the time.

[kestrel91316]

20. I betcha this is just another nut gone off her meds...............

[Freedom_Aflaim]

21. LMAO. I guess she forgot to use the safety barrels

Whats wrong with those silly terrorist? Dont they know those barrels are for bombs, weapons, evil vaseline and evil screwdriver???

[kpete]

22. Oh, geez.

Oh, geez.

NBC now reporting they don’t think the woman had a note.

AP now reporting that she may or may not have had Vaseline, screwdriver or matches. (Coming from Heathrow, how could she?)

Seems she was claustrophobic.

[capi888]

24. She is 60 years old....OMG

This is insane. Now not sure she had the items. She had a panick attack on plane...we are being spoofed...scare, scare, scare!!! Not on her persons, is being said now...

[blonndee]

23. A poster on another thread said that TSA is denying she

had these items in her possession.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2459491#2459602

[treestar]

25. In the meantime those who saw the first report on CNN have lost

their attention span and will forever go about thinking another Al Qaeda plot was just foiled!

:rofl:

[keepCAblue]

26. Confirmed - no items as previously claimed

She was simply claustrophobic...had none of the items reported earlier:

The federal security official said there was no indication of terrorism and denied reports that the woman had a screw driver, matches and a note referring to al-Qaida.

The female passenger aboard United Flight 923 said she was claustrophobic and became very upset and got into some kind of confrontation with the flight crew, said George Naccara, federal security director for the Transportation Security Administration for Massachusetts' airport...

Naccara said he did not believe any items she was carrying were the cause of the outburst. An airport spokesman previously said the woman was carrying lotion, a screw driver and matches, but backed off the statement, and Naccara said it wasn't true.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060816/ap_on_re_us/flight_diverted

[spanone]

27. It's either terrorism or sex...

[calico1]

28. Bad choice on her part....

I would have had a Manhattan.

[Mr_Spock]

29. NO indication of terrorism!!

She had some sort of issue (personal) - the early reports were

LIES!!!

[milkyway]

30. Where were the fighter jets on 9/11?

[spanone]

32. MSNBC reported that 2 fed officials say she had no vaseline, screwdriver o

or matches. So, where is the fucking hell do these stories derive from????

[DoYouEverWonder]

34. Who would think the FBI would start busting some of these fearmongers

Who are generating this stuff?

Of course, they're too busy infiltrating marshall arts groups.

[MissB]

33. Another report notes that McGyver was sitting next to her.

Okay, not really.