=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This article was sent to you by someone who found it on SF Gate. The original article can be found on SFGate.com here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=3D/news/archive/2003/09/14/s= tate0936EDT0016.DTL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, September 14, 2003 (AP) Passengers duct-tape troublesome passenger on Hawaii-to-LA flight (09-14) 06:36 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A man who disrupted a United Airlines flight from Honolulu was subdued by passengers and airline officials who duct-taped him, then handed him over to authorities when the plane landed Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport, police said. No one was reported injured during the altercation, said Sgt. Carl Sansbury of the airport police. "The FBI is conducting an investigation," Sansbury said, adding he didn't know what prompted the outburst. He said police were called to the United gate about 4:45 a.m. and took the man into custody, then handed him over to the FBI. The man, whose name was not immediately released, could face a federal charge of interfering with a flight crew, Sansbury said. "The aircraft landed at the gate without incident," he said. One of the plane's passengers, Joseph Gugerty, said the man got out of h= is seat and began talking and wandering the aisle about 90 minutes after United Flight 54 left Honolulu for Los Angeles. "He was pacing and reading the Bible," said Gugerty who was returning to Kentucky, where he is chief of communications in The Associated Press' Louisville bureau. "They basically put him down and duct-taped him and the police took him off when the plane landed," Gugerty said. He added that about a half-dozen passengers helped an air marshal subdue the man. "They let him wander back and forth in the plane until he started to move forward," Gugerty said. "Then they surrounded him and pushed him to the floor. I don't know where they got the duct tape from." =20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2003 AP