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Title: Plane returns after fistfight over reclined seat
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URL Source: http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/trav ... -fistfight-over-reclined-seat/
Published: Jun 2, 2011
Author: WaPo
Post Date: 2011-06-02 10:46:30 by christine
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Views: 123
Comments: 9

WASHINGTON (AP) — Government and airline officials say a United Airlines plane with 144 people aboard returned to Washington-Dulles International Airport for an emergency landing escorted by two F-16 fighter jets after a fight broke out between passengers.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown says Flight 990 bound for Accra, Ghana, returned to Dulles in Chantilly, Virginia, just after midnight Sunday after a fistfight in the cabin.
Government officials confirmed that fighter jets were scrambled from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
United spokesman Mike Trevino said Tuesday that the Boeing 767 dumped fuel as a safety precaution to lighten its weight on landing.
The Washington Post, which first reported the incident, reported that the fight began not long after takeoff when a passenger lowered his seat and a passenger behind him objected.
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The pilots had to dump a large amount of fuel into the Atlantic in order to land the jet. This was a ridiculous over reaction. Both should have been told to sit down and STFU. Of course since 9/11, situations like these will cause over reactions since passengers might be terrorists. /s
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#1. To: PSUSA (#0)
Flight 990 bound for Accra, Ghana

Dollars-to-donuts sez it was darkies getting all worked up at the thought of returning to Afreaka!
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X-15 posted on 2011-06-02 11:15:52 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#2. To: christine, All Airlines, FAA (#0)
the fight began not long after takeoff when a passenger lowered his seat and a passenger behind him objected.

Air travel used to be special, and the passengers weren't treated like dumb cattle:

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"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
X-15 posted on 2011-06-02 11:20:22 ET (1 image) Reply Trace Private Reply
#3. To: christine (#0)
All planes should have a Rottweiler on it named "Balls."
"Look Balls...a fight!"
“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend” - J.R.R. Tolkien
Turtle posted on 2011-06-02 11:30:43 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#4. To: christine (#0) (Edited)
Early in 2001 there were a couple of proposals in Congress to change the regulations for airlines to assure that passengers were more comfortable -- a very important factor in reducing "air rage" which seems to come from a combination of fear and discomfort (not to mention the extreme pain -- and possible fatal results -- from Deep Vein Thrombosis that can come from the cramped sitting position over several hours). But the very thought vanished with the Sept. 11th attacks. So now passengers have fear, discomfort, and the humiliation and stress that comes from the check-in frisking, plus being packed like sardines. I'm just surprised that this sort of thing didn't happen sooner.
Of course, a piece of this may come from passengers who are unfamiliar with how people are supposed to behave on a US plane. In some parts of the Third World, passengers have actually set up little stoves for their own meals inside the passenger cabin (which explains some of those plane crashes).

Shoonra posted on 2011-06-02 11:36:10 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#5. To: christine (#0)
The pilots had to dump a large amount of fuel into the Atlantic in order to land the jet. This was a ridiculous over reaction. Both should have been told to sit down and STFU. Of course since 9/11, situations like these will cause over reactions since passengers might be terrorists.

I thought a air Marshall was aboard all flights now? What was he doing while these two were fighting and they turned the plane around? sleeping?
God is always good!
RickyJ posted on 2011-06-02 17:47:05 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#6. To: Shoonra (#4)
In some parts of the Third World, passengers have actually set up little stoves for their own meals inside the passenger cabin (which explains some of those plane crashes).

are you talking about on private aircraft?

christine posted on 2011-06-02 17:57:48 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#7. To: christine (#0)
This is actually a crime for which these two low_grades should be arrested & convicted. I'd vote to send them to jail for a year plus probation. That will be appropriate punishment & teach them not to act like loons onn an airplane.
"Even to the death fight for truth, and the LORD your God will battle for you". Sirach 4:28
Artisan posted on 2011-06-04 12:53:05 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#8. To: christine (#6) (Edited)
It happens on sub-par airlines in the Middle East/Africa all the time. They even bring their goats on the aircraft. Air travel is NOT the same world-wide ;- )
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"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
X-15 posted on 2011-06-04 12:57:15 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#9. To: RickyJ (#5)
I thought a air Marshall was aboard all flights now?

No, it's still a random occasion when they're on an airliner.
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"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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