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July 22, 2004
Fly the Scary Skies
The Annie Jacobson story has finally hit the national print media, along with several other instances of 'suspicious' behavior. Most of them could have perfectly rational explanations, except this:
A second pilot said that, on one of his recent flights, an air marshal forced his way into the lavatory at the front of his plane after a man of Middle Eastern descent locked himself in for a long period.
The marshal found the mirror had been removed and the man was attempting to break through the wall. The cockpit was on the other side.
Pretty scary. Even scarier is that officials for the most part seem to be practicing a 'catch & release' program for the ones involved in these incidents. This article doesn't say what happened to this guy, but I don't remember seeing any headlines saying "Man Shot While Attempting to Break into Cockpit", do you?
It also makes me wonder what else has been happening on flights that hasn't been released to the public.
Posted by Rita at July 22, 2004 07:42 AM