Passenger Attempted to Ignite Shoe on United Airlines Flight
Passenger Attempted to Ignite Shoe on United Airlines Flight
#1Passenger Attempted to Ignite Shoe on United Airlines Flight
Posted: 4/7/10 at 11:11pm
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/07/us.airliner.disturbance/index.html?hpt=T1
Plane has landed and situation is under control.
Scary.
--Aristotle
#2Passenger Attempted to Ignite Shoe on United Airlines Flight
Posted: 4/7/10 at 11:27pm
Right-wing blogs are quoting ABC News as saying the suspect (Mohammaed al Modadi...BOO!) is a diplomat from the Qatar embassy in Washington hell-bent on jihad.
Left-wing blogs are quoting MSNBC as saying he was a hot-headed passenger, smoking a cig and mouthing off. No terror threat. NO shoe bomb.
CNN says it was a pipe.
Fox News says "A diplomat from Qatar was arrested Wednesday evening after reportedly trying to light his shoes on fire on a flight from Washington, D.C., to Denver, but details of the incident remain unclear."
Huffington Post quotes the AP as saying the incident aboard a Washington to Denver flight Wednesday night appears to have been a misunderstanding after the man was confronted trying to sneak a smoke in the bathroom. The official says the man "made a joke about it" – which only alarmed people further. No explosives were found on the man and officials do not believe he was trying to harm anyone.
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