http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34592031/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

Quote :

" The FBI has sent agents to Detroit Metropolitan Airport to investigate reports of a thwarted hijacking attempt, an FBI spokeswoman told NBC News on Friday. The report is unconfirmed, said Sandra Berchtold of the FBI's Detrioit field office. Initial unconfirmed reports indicated that a passenger was lighting firecrackers aboard Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit."

wat?

12/25/2009 2:59:39 PM

thats not a very good gift

12/25/2009 3:02:15 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/12/25/airliner.firecrackers/index.html

This is better. Some idiot set off firecrackers when the plane landed. Was subdued, and probably arrested on the spot. FBI is investigating. Plane landed 3 hrs ago.

12/25/2009 3:03:01 PM

bottle rockets only work well in planes, if they are shot from one end to the other. shooting them vertically typically doesn't work too well.

12/25/2009 3:03:06 PM

sounds like he planned his crime pretty well

12/25/2009 3:04:23 PM

oh snap

I was in that airport two days ago

12/25/2009 3:07:05 PM

12/25/2009 3:21:16 PM

Quote :

"Plane hijacked in Detroit"

and

Quote :

"thwarted hijacking attempt"

are two very different things. I was legitimately worried when I read the title.

fucking fear monger

12/25/2009 3:27:58 PM

yeah, i know what i was doing

12/25/2009 3:29:11 PM

12/25/2009 3:30:39 PM

Quote :

"from Amsterdam "

12/25/2009 3:54:11 PM

Quote :

"Quote : "Plane hijacked in Detroit" and Quote : "thwarted hijacking attempt" are two very different things. I was legitimately worried when I read the title. fucking fear monger"

combine that with

Quote :

"lighting firecrackers"

being considered some level of "hijacking"

jeepers we're a bunch of pussies, and the sad part is we're the toughest westernized nation by several orders of magnitude

12/25/2009 4:41:34 PM

the fuck dude, i just came back from the detroit airport! my friend's flight was at 5pm

he is not answering his phone

12/25/2009 5:47:07 PM

maybe he turned it off for takeoff

or was brutally murdered

[Edited on December 25, 2009 at 5:48 PM. Reason : or both]

12/25/2009 5:48:08 PM

lol

dude try to hijack a plane with friggin flash powder

12/25/2009 6:07:44 PM

i hope his place took off!

another thing, we took pictures at the airport...i hope fbi doesnt come searching for me or my friend who is on his way to NYC (hopefully)

12/25/2009 6:19:47 PM

White house is now calling an attempted terrorist attack.

12/25/2009 7:14:03 PM

can one pass through security in Nigeria and then board a connecting flight in Amsterdam without having to pass through another security checkpoint? how exactly does that work?

12/25/2009 8:33:21 PM

why are you asking that? that's an awfully suspicious question to be asking at a time like this

12/25/2009 8:38:16 PM

YUO ARE UNDER NET ARREST

NET COPS ARE ON THEIR WAY

12/25/2009 8:39:43 PM

^^i'm trying to figure out who screwed up here? Was it security in Amsterdam or security elsewher? how did he get whatever he lit on fire onto the plane?

[Edited on December 25, 2009 at 8:41 PM. Reason : .]

12/25/2009 8:41:04 PM

OH SHIT THE FBI IS GOING TO GET ME FOR TAKING PICTURES

12/25/2009 10:15:51 PM

12-25-2009 Never Forget

12/25/2009 10:29:59 PM

everything he had on the plane was legal. he assembled the device from small amounts of peroxide hollowed batteries and household liquids.

to asnwer your question, everyone who switches international planes has to go through security ALL OVER again. if you switch domestic you're fine thouhg.

12/25/2009 10:36:36 PM

not true. I flew from montreal to chicago to raleigh and never had to re-enter security after passing through montreal

12/25/2009 10:52:47 PM

Sir, our country is going through a very difficult time right now. And if you're not going to cooperate...

12/25/2009 11:16:24 PM

I guess this guy can end up with a cell right next to richard reid in that supermax hell in colorado

12/25/2009 11:31:20 PM

[quote]
everything he had on the plane was legal. he assembled the device from small amounts of peroxide hollowed batteries and household liquids.

to asnwer your question, everyone who switches international planes has to go through security ALL OVER again. if you switch domestic you're fine thouhg.[\quote]

great, add a whole new list of things you can't bring onto a plane.

12/25/2009 11:39:27 PM

Fortunately he's an enemy combatant and therefore not a legal entity with any human rights whatsoever according to the Obama administration and the supreme court as of last week.

WELCOME TO AMERICA. HERE COMES THE TORTURE!

I'll bet that fellow has jumper cables hanging from his nipples as we speak.



[Edited on December 25, 2009 at 11:49 PM. Reason : .]

12/25/2009 11:41:22 PM

yeah, but if you light firecrackers on a moving plane will they take off?

12/26/2009 12:20:56 AM

Quote :

"Although transportation officials had not announced new security measures yet, Air Canada said the Transportation Security Agency would make significant changes to the way passengers are able to move about on aircraft. During the final hour of flight, customers will have to remain seated, will not be allowed access to carry-on baggage and cannot have personal belongings or other items on their laps, according to a notice on Air Canada’s Web site."

12/26/2009 2:19:37 PM

Quote :

"During the final hour of flight, customers will have to remain seated, will not be allowed access to carry-on baggage and cannot have personal belongings or other items on their laps"

All because some dickhole was lighting firecrackers. Goddammit I hate the fucking TSA.

12/26/2009 2:30:40 PM

^I hate the dickhole more.

12/26/2009 3:12:16 PM

Quote :

"yeah, but if you light firecrackers on a moving plane will they take off?"

That depends on whether or not a treadmill is involved.

12/26/2009 4:12:32 PM

is the treadmill given extra propulsion from bottle rockets?

12/26/2009 4:14:10 PM

i guess they will just have to try to detonate their bombs before the last hour of flight now :/

12/26/2009 5:22:17 PM

[link]http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_0_t&usg=AFQjCNHpveBFn--ndpzBb0rISBNEclT9wQ&cid=17593681471780&ei=6PE2S8DhHsX3lAeM1t_0AQ&rt=SECTION&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2F<a href="http://www.mercurynews.com%2Fpolitics-government%2Fci_14074563[/link]" target="_blank">http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_0_t&usg=AFQjCNHpveBFn--ndpzBb0rISBNEclT9wQ&cid=17593681471780&ei=6PE2S8DhHsX3lAeM1t_0AQ&rt=SECTION&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhttp://www.mercurynews.com%2Fpolitics-government%2Fci_14074563</a>

Terror suspect's father warned U.S. officials about son's religious beliefs

[Edited on December 27, 2009 at 12:36 AM. Reason : ]

12/27/2009 12:36:10 AM

Quote :

"During the final hour of flight, customers will have to remain seated, will not be allowed access to carry-on baggage and cannot have personal belongings or other items on their laps"

Well that's fucking annoying. Good thing I flew on the 24th and not today like I was originally supposed to

12/27/2009 12:57:33 AM

He wasn't just lighting firecrackers he had nitroglycerine sewn into his underwear the "firecrackers" were just the small explosions designed to trigger the larger explosives to blow but it was either assembled incorrectly or the smaller explosives weren't making good contact with the stuff that was supposed to make the big boom

12/27/2009 1:45:07 AM

how fucking damn. So now, for the last hour, we'll all be miserable. until someone gets the bright idea to try something an hour and a half before landing. then it'll be the last three hours that we must be miserable. And then someone gets the bright idea to light his penis on fire three and a half hours before landing. And then they'll give us all tranquilizers and strap us down onto stretchers for the entire flight. jesus, does no one at TSA have any fucking clue what they are doing?

12/27/2009 2:25:54 AM

No, they don't. The same fuckers who can't get your order right at Wendy's are operating the scanners at the airports. Airport security is by and large a joke and is only in place to provide the illusion of safety. Unfortunately they seem to have forgotten this and now the idiots in charge of this joke of an agncy have come up with brilliant plans like makng us remove our shoes and now keep our hands empty the last hour of the flight as if these kinds of "scurity measures" will prevent people who want to hurt us from tring to hurt us. It makes Bout as much sense as trying to keep guns out of criminals hands by makng it harder to buy them at a gun store.

12/27/2009 4:31:04 AM

"Dick Bomb In a Box" by The Dick Bomber

1. Cut a hole in a box.

2. Put your junk and some PETN in that box.

3. Blow up the box--and that's the way you do it!

[Edited on December 27, 2009 at 4:56 AM. Reason : I know this was a serious incident, but we have to keep our sense of humor or the terrorists win.]

12/27/2009 4:54:47 AM

Quote :

"have come up with brilliant plans like makng us remove our shoes"

This one annoys the piss out of me. As far as I've experienced, the US is the only country that still makes you take your shoes off.

12/27/2009 5:44:52 AM

still not as bad as the typo in the Amtrak gun law that requires for the passenger to be in a locked box

12/27/2009 7:20:34 AM

^ Because I'm sure that actually gets enforced.

12/27/2009 8:40:04 AM

BTTT

wtf is going on

12/27/2009 2:30:52 PM

Someone will call in a luggage-shaped bomb threat and then we wont be able to carry on anything.

And then there will be a threat of ppl hiding pocketknifes in their asses and, well...

12/27/2009 2:34:09 PM

What the fuck, again?

Quote :

" DEVELOPING: Several police vehicles and a police command unit have surrounded a plane at Detroit's Metro Airport. Metro Airport spokesman John Witner said there was a report of suspicious activity on the Delta/Northwest flight 253 from Amsterdam Sunday. That is the same flight number as the flight that a Nigerian man was suspected of attempting to blow up over Detroit on Christmas Day. All 257 passengers and 12 crew have deplaned safely, said Delta spokeswoman Susan Elliott. The flight landed safely in Detroit at 12:34 p.m. Sunday. The flight crew requested that law enforcement meet the aircraft after a passenger on the plane became verbally disruptive, said Elliott. The Associated Press reported that the incident lead to the arrest of a Nigerian man, who is now in custody."

12/27/2009 2:34:24 PM

apparently detroit is a fucking magnet for shit going down

12/27/2009 2:49:20 PM

set em up

12/27/2009 2:51:07 PM