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To: Road Walker who wrote (300230)	8/16/2006 8:39:58 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1586476

You know the scare article from Fox that was posted to you this AM......it was much to do about nothing. Meanwhile Seattle's port was evacuated today.......they thought there was a bomb. Its going to be a fun three months. Panicking passenger forces plane to make emergency landing in Boston By Jason Bennetto, Megan Haddow and Andrew Buncombe in Washington Published: 17 August 2006 An airliner that took off from Heathrow yesterday made an emergency landing in the United States after a terror alert caused by a panicking woman passenger. Two fighter jets escorted the US-bound plane, carrying 182 passengers and 12 crew, to Logan airport in Boston. Initial reports suggested that a 59-year-old woman had been carrying a screwdriver, petroleum jelly, matches and a note mentioning al-Qa'ida, but that was later denied by airport officials. The woman was arrested after the plane had landed safely in connection with a confrontation with the flight crew, according to transport officials. US security chiefs said the woman had become claustrophobic and upset, provoking a confrontation with flight crew. After the Washington-bound United Airlines flight landed at Boston, all the passengers' suitcases and bags were laid out on the runway and checked for explosives by a sniffer dog. In a separate incident a man broke into a plane at Gatwick to retrieve a lost wallet. The man was allowed to wander unchallenged in a secure area and force his way on to the aircraft. Although neither of the scares were terrorist incidents, they illustrated the heightened state of alert and fear surrounding aircraft security. The incidents came a week after the police and MI5 foiled an alleged plot to smuggle liquid explosives on to as many as 10 US-bound airliners and blow them up in mid-air. Yesterday's emergency landing involved Flight 923 which left Heathrow at 8.30am. It had been due to land at Washington at 4.10pm UK time and then fly on to Denver, Colorado. But the captain declared a security emergency after what airline officials described as "an altercation with at least one female passenger". A United Airlines spokeswoman said: "The plane is safely on the ground in Boston. The crew assessed the situation and determined that a divert was the appropriate course of action." In the second airport security incident, Thomas Cook Airlines called for the prosecution of a man who broke into a plane at Gatwick to retrieve his wallet. The charter airline is demanding answers from BAA as to how the man was allowed to go unchallenged in a secure area. The Asian man was discovered clutching a briefcase inside the Majorca-bound plane at 1.10am on Tuesday. He had arrived at Gatwick on a Thomson flight from Ibiza. The man realised he had lost his wallet and boarded the Thomas Cook plane after smashing an alarmed glass door lock on the jetty. When challenged by cleaners he fled but was later detained and questioned by police, before being released without charge. continued.......... news.independent.co.uk

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