Richard Tafoya
Aug 16th, 2006, 02:20 PM
Reuters:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-08-16T184713Z_01_N16276900_RTRIDST_0_SECURITY-BOSTON-UPDATE-5.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna
A woman panicking from claustrophobia forced a Washington-bound flight from London to make an emergency landing in Boston on Wednesday, sparking a major security alert.
Police and other officials said there was no apparent terrorist threat, but the incident set off a major security response a week after British authorities said they had foiled a plot to blow up planes from London to the United States.
Flight 923, carrying 182 passengers and 12 crew, was escorted by fighter jets to Boston after crew members confronted a 59-year-old U.S. woman who became unruly due to an apparent panic attack, officials said.
Nenette Day, a spokeswoman with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Boston, said the woman became disruptive on the flight and had to be forcibly restrained. She was arrested after the plane landed. Disrupting an international flight is a crime, said Day.
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One media report carried on CNN and major TV networks, and later denied, said the woman had Vaseline, a screwdriver, matches and a note on the Islamic militant group al Qaeda.
The FBI's Day said a search of her belongings produced no dangerous materials and no note from al Qaeda.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-08-16T184713Z_01_N16276900_RTRIDST_0_SECURITY-BOSTON-UPDATE-5.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna
A woman panicking from claustrophobia forced a Washington-bound flight from London to make an emergency landing in Boston on Wednesday, sparking a major security alert.
Police and other officials said there was no apparent terrorist threat, but the incident set off a major security response a week after British authorities said they had foiled a plot to blow up planes from London to the United States.
Flight 923, carrying 182 passengers and 12 crew, was escorted by fighter jets to Boston after crew members confronted a 59-year-old U.S. woman who became unruly due to an apparent panic attack, officials said.
Nenette Day, a spokeswoman with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Boston, said the woman became disruptive on the flight and had to be forcibly restrained. She was arrested after the plane landed. Disrupting an international flight is a crime, said Day.
...
One media report carried on CNN and major TV networks, and later denied, said the woman had Vaseline, a screwdriver, matches and a note on the Islamic militant group al Qaeda.
The FBI's Day said a search of her belongings produced no dangerous materials and no note from al Qaeda.