Sun, Aug 22, 2010
Anonymous Caller Said There Was A Hijacker On Board
You have to hope that the
authorities are able to locate whoever was responsible for this. An
American Airlines jet getting set to depart San Francisco to New
York was stopped just before takeoff after an anonymous caller told
a clerk at a hotel in Alameda, which is across the bay from San
Francisco Airport, he intended to hijack the plane.
TSA stopped the plane from departing, and it was moved to a
"secure location" away from the terminal on the airport. All of the
passengers on board were taken off the plane and re-screened
through security. "TSA is aware of an alleged threat made via phone
against American Airlines flight 24 (SFO-JFK) before take-off," the
government's transportation security agency said in a
statement.
Multiple media sources indicate that TSA and the FBI determined
that the threat was "not credible".
The flight was already running
about two and a half hours behind schedule when the call came. The
FBI confirmed that a couple was arrested, but quickly released, and
would not discuss why they were singled out. One passenger said he
saw them at the American ticket counter with Pakistani
passports.
Other passengers were taken off the plane six at a time and
rescreened. The couple which was detained told the Associated Press
that they were upset that they had been singled out, but that they
knew that the police were "just doing their jobs."
The caller reportedly was "almost ranting" to the hotel clerk
specifically about hijacking Flight 24. FBI spokesman Joseph
Schadler said “We take any threat against an airline or
potential terrorist activity very seriously. You treat them like
it’s real until proven otherwise because the cost of failure
is so high.”
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