BOB, the UPRR RAILFAN UPHS 5560 >Subject: RE: [Airline] Sacramento flight diverted by 'unruly' passenger >> >The next Hollywood movie we are going to be looking at, all the false >things >that can happen on a large airplane just won't happen I think. I am sure >the >rest of you have seen so many things that can not happen on board. >Bob > > >BOB FLETCHER >USACE, >1325 J STREET >SACRAMENTO, CA. > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: airline2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:airline2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf >Of >ISRIC >Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 4:42 PM >To: airline2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: RE: [Airline] Sacramento flight diverted by 'unruly' passenger > >No, any exit, including an emergency exit are plug type doors and cannot be >opened in flight if the aircraft is pressurized. > > >James > >-----Original Message----- >From: airline2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:airline2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf >Of >Airline >Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 1:01 PM >To: airline2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: [Airline] Sacramento flight diverted by 'unruly' passenger > >OK, here is kinda a dumb question, but can you really open an emergency >exit >while at altitude? I fly every week pretty much, but have never dwelled on >this issue much.... >Dave > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Catsn4@xxxxxxx > To: airline2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 5:09 PM > Subject: [Airline] Sacramento flight diverted by 'unruly' passenger > > > > > Sacramento flight diverted by 'unruly' passenger > > By Cameron Jahn and Tony Bizjak -- Bee Staff Writers > Published 7:12 pm PDT Friday, April 21, 2006 > [Updated: 11:25 p.m. Friday] Donna Bell didn't think much about the man > roaming the aisle of her Sacramento-bound flight Friday, until he tried >to >open > the emergency exit door and shouted that he had a bomb hidden in his >camera. > "Had he opened the door, we'd all be dead," said Bell, who was returning >from > a trip to Holland. > > Bell, who lives near Visalia, said she was relieved to land in >Sacramento > > after the airliner's cabin and cargo hold were searched by >bomb-sniffing >dogs > during a stop-over at Denver International Airport. No explosives were >found. > The passenger, identified by the FBI as Jose Manuel Pelayo-Ortega, was >taken > into custody at the Denver airport. > Passengers said the United Airlines flight from Chicago was about 150 >miles > from Denver, when Pelayo-Ortega, who had been roaming the aisle, >suddenly > > announced that he wanted to get off the plane. But before he could twist >the > handle on the emergency door, a flight attendant leapt up to stop him. > Witnesses said Pelayo-Ortega then swung at the flight attendant before >he >was > put in a choke hold and thrown to the floor by crew members and >passengers, > including three Secret Service agents traveling between assignments. The > agents wrestled Pelayo-Ortega away from the door and duct-taped him to >his >seat. > Pelayo-Ortega was being held Friday night at the Denver Police >Department > > pending federal charges, said Monique Kelso, FBI spokeswoman. > "It is premature at this time to say what the charges will be," she >said. >"We > probably will not know until Monday." > Authorities did not disclose Pelayo-Ortega's age, city of residence or >other > personal information. > Joe Peña, a senior airman at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, said >the > > in-flight fracas went by quickly, but he described the scene like a bar >fight > that passengers standing and craning their necks to get a look. > "I heard a bunch of commotion, and I heard somebody yell 'What are you >doing' > and 'Get down,' then I saw the guy put into a chokehold, put on his back >and > pinned down so he couldn't move," Peña said in Sacramento, after hugging >his > tearful wife, Candy. > When she got a call from her husband, Candy Peña thought he had arrived >in > > Denver ahead of schedule. > "Then he said there was a guy trying to get into the cockpit and that he >had > a bomb," she said while waiting with her two young children for the >flight >to > touch down. "I was worried, definitely." > Ian Grossman, who was traveling from Chicago to see his brother in >Manteca, > was grateful for his quick-thinking fellow passengers. > "That saved us," he told a throng of reporters in the baggage claim >area. > > "You don't know what will happen if a guy like that is loose in the >cabin." > > The Airbus A320, which left Chicago at 3:14 p.m. local time, landed at >the > > Denver airport at 4:37 p.m. > Passengers said two fighter jets, which the Associated Press said were >F-16s > from Buckley Air Force Base, scrambled to escort the plane as it flew >into > > Denver. > Local Denver and federal authorities, as well and firefighters >surrounded >the > plane after it landed and taxied to a remote area of the airport. >Passengers > were quickly removed from the plane and bused to the terminal. > "It was very organized," said Bruce Grogan of Sacramento. "I was very > impressed." > FBI spokeswoman Kelso said no passengers appeared to have been injured. > A spokesman for United Airlines, Brandon Borrman, said reports indicate > Pelayo-Ortega was traveling with others, but he did not know whether >they >were > family members. > Several passengers said Pelayo-Ortega's brother, a passenger, sat with >him > > after he was restrained. > Authorities declined to say what may have caused Pelayo-Ortega to try to >open > an emergency door. > The jet, carrying 138 passengers and six crew members, was allowed to >leave > Denver for Sacramento at 6:30 p.m. PDT and arrived at Sacramento >International > Airport at 9 p.m. > Dave Reno, waiting in Sacramento, said the in-flight action apparently >didn't > bother his wife, Pat, a passenger, who called from Denver to "matter of > factly" report the delay. > "It was a courtesy call to tell me she would be late," he said. 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