Profiles in Courage (DP sorry)

[tommywishbone]

Let me guess; passengers were complaining about beverage service and the pilot decided not to take any chances and called for an F-16 escort.

More to follow...

Dutch police confirm 12 arrests on plane 36 minutes ago, Wednesday, August 23,2006

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch police confirmed the arrests of 12 passengers on a U.S. Northwest Airlines plane bound for India which was forced to turn back to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday.

"The 12 people that have been arrested were passengers," a spokesman said. "They will be interrogated in the coming hours by police investigators."

Asked whether a suspected terrorist attack could be ruled out, the spokesman said: "We don't want to get ahead of ourselves."


Updates pending...

Sorry, double post by 4 minutes.:beer:

 

[JEDIYoda]

why the sarcasm?
I could understand if all the passengers were complaining about there Antec PSU`s and the pilot decided not to take any chances and called for an F-16 escort.

 

[yllus]

So I imagine that if you were on that plane, you'd loudly insist the flight continue regardless?

 

[tommywishbone]

According to CNN, "the passengers were sharing a cell phone." Is there no limit to the fear being shown these days?

Yes, I think the flight could continue, after all the flight crew changes their underpants.