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273 passengers from a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) were evacuated by Swedish police on Saturday after the jest was diverted to Stockholm due to a bomb alert. A passenger was detained on suspicion of preparing aircraft sabotage, officials said.
After no explosives were found on the man, he was released. The police questioned the passenger form the Boeing 777. All of the passengers, except the suspect, were allowed back on the plane after nine hours.
The plane had taken off from Manchester, England, and was flying to Karachi, Pakistan, Jan Lindqvist, a spokesman for airport operator Swedavia said. The flight was travelling from Toronto to Karachi. But the pilot was asked to land by Canadian authorities, who claimed to have received a tip that a passenger was carrying explosives.
It is still being investigated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police whether the incident was a “terrorism hoax.”
After the flight had landed, a SWAT team detained the suspect as he was evacuated from the aircraft along with the other passengers. The police described the suspect as a Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin, aged about 30. His identity was still not confirmed.
According to a spokesman for the state-owned Pakistan International Airlines, the suspect was a 25-year-old Canadian national.
Police operation leader Stefan Radman said the tip was “called in by a woman in Canada.” He added that Swedish police took the threat seriously.
The Swedish police said the man was not on any international no-fly lists, he had cleared a security check in Canada, and he did not resist when the SWAT team took him into custody.
A spokesman for state-run PIA in Pakistan confirmed the incident involved Flight PK782 to Karachi.
PIA said there were 255 passengers and 18 crew members on the plane, in which 102 were Canadian nationals, 139 Pakistanis, eight U.S. citizens, three Indians and one each from Japan, Malaysia and Bangladesh.
Category : Travel
Steven Slater, a flight attendant of JetBlue had fought with a passenger, then deployed emergency exit slide so he could flee according to police. The said flight attendant has been arrested.
The said flight attendant got into an argument with a passenger on the jetliner that is arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday. The attendant cussed the passenger, grabbed a beer from the galley and then deployed an emergency exit slide and fled the plane, according to the authorities. He was arrested at his nearby home in the Belle Harbor section of Queens by the Port Authority of New york and New Jersey Police. He was charged of criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and trespassing following Monday’s incident.
Steven Slater was working on a JetBlue Airways Corporation which flight is from Pittsburgh when the flight attendant got into a heated argument with the passenger about baggage according to Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police. He remained in custody Monday night.
Slater was on board JetBlue Flight 1052 when he got into an altercation with the said passenger who was pulling down baggage from an overhead bin. The luggage apparently struck the attendant in the head and the attendant asked for an apology, but the passenger refused according to the agency.
They say that as the plane was landing, Slater used the public-address system to berate the passenger. He grabbed a beer, then activated the slide, then slid down and went straight to his car, according to authorities. And about 25 minutes later, Port Authority police were notified.
JetBlue Airways Corporation said in a statement that they were working with the Federal Aviation Administration together with the Port Authority police to investigate the said matter. The company also said that the safety of its customers and crew members was never at risk.
JetBlue refuse to give any information of how long Slater had been employed by the said company.
Slater was arrested at his Queens home and now in custody. His lawyers name wasn’t available immediately. He doesn’t have any telephone numbers listed for him.
Category : General
Burbank, California – Bob Hope International airport was one of the first recipients of the newly enhanced full body scanner from the Transportation Security Administration.
This, after the Obama administration heightens its security efforts against terrorism following the spoiled bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight where the suspect was able to hide the explosives inside his underpants.
Three more machines will be added at Logan International Airport in Boston. Other units will still be followed at Fort Lauderdale, Florida; San Jose, California; Columbus, Ohio; San Diego; Charlotte, North Carolina. According to TSA representative Lee Kair, more machines will be added to several states.
Experts are optimistic about it, explaining that the polls conducted by a USA TODAY group showed that the public supported the idea. According to the poll released last January 78 of the respondents approved the use of body scanners and 67 percent said they feel comfortable being checked. The experts also insisted that it would be unlikely to have a strong public resistance compared to what happened in Europe.
Some analysts, however, disagreed. Aside from the high price of the body scanners, they pointed out that additional expenses are also needed for it to be operated, calibrated, and maintained.
The American Civil Liberties Union also denounced the idea, adding that the cost should not be measured by dollars alone, but by the time delay it cost the passengers during their flights. The group also tagged the machine as a “virtual strip search” depriving anyone of his or her rights.
The TSA, in defense, reasoned out that passengers will still be given options whether they would like to undergo body scanning or not. Full body scanning will only take less that 25 seconds, and those who do not wish to have it may still pass through a metal detector and must submit to a pat down.
The scanners will allow TSA representatives to see beneath a passenger’s clothing, enabling them to search for explosives and contrabands. To maintain privacy, the images are only seen by a security officer in a remote station. The passenger’s face is blurred and that images will not be stored or saved.