The Christmas pantybomber, the guy locked up in the bathroom, and now this,
Northwest Flight 243 4 Unruly Passengers detained: NW 243 Amsterdam to Detroit
A Detroit station is reporting another unruly passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. This report came in at 2:07 p.m. EST, and said passengers were being “let off” the flight. Update: Four men of Middle Eastern descent caused the disturbance (alleged).
Update 3:40 p.m. CDT: Detroit News says 4 passengers from Saudia Arabia are being questioned.
Maggie’s notebook asks,
Read about Clogging the Intelligence Pipeline. Is that what this is all about? Keeping the pipeline so busy that we run out of personnel to really keep the country safe.
Check out their links.
The question remains,
So it wasn’t a threat, but crew members were worried enough that they felt the need to have authorities meet them at the gate and detain these four, er, noncompliants, who just happen to all be from Saudi Arabia?
Links via Larwyn.
UPDATE, Wednesday 13 January
Follow-up post.
Thanks for the link Fausta.
Being a failed liberal experiment, I just assumed the city was a natural crap magnet…
Well, you’ve got the huge Presbyterian population in Michigan, plus it’s the main Delta/NorthWorst overseas hub, so the Detroit airport is sort of a place where all these threads of joy coalesce.
Those Presbyterians again! Will they never stop attacking us?
I thought the Saudis had a boycott going? I was so hopeful.
I would surmise that the City of Detroit has more problems than it can handle already – does it really need this in addition? But maybe it’s those Presbyterians causing trouble again? Who knows? Silverfiddle could be right and the city of Detroit is simply a crap magnet!