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Teenager arrested in suicide hijacking plot
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| leph555 |
| quote: | Authorities have charged a teenage boy who said he planned to hijack a commercial jetliner in an attempt to commit suicide, an FBI spokesman told CNN late Thursday.
The 16-year-old was taken into custody by airport police without incident on Tuesday evening after flying from Los Angeles, California, to Nashville, Tennessee, on Southwest Airlines Flight 284.
"His stated intent was to hijack the airplane and commit suicide," said George Bolds, an FBI spokesman in Memphis, Tennessee. "He did indicate he intended to die in Louisiana. It appears he had a ticket to Louisiana."
Bolds said the boy indicated he had lived in Louisiana.
The teen wanted to crash the plane into a Hannah Montana concert in Lafayette, Louisiana, two CNN television affiliates in Nashville, WSMV and WTVF, reported, citing unnamed sources. The concert is scheduled for Friday night at the Lafayette Cajundome.
Bolds said he had no information on whether the concert may have been targeted as part of the plot.
In the teen's possession were handcuffs, duct tape and a type of rope or yarn, according to the FBI. "His plan contemplated overpowering the flight crew," Bolds said.
The teen is being held on unspecified state charges and could face federal charges as well, Bolds said. CNN affiliate WTVF reported the teen has been charged with felony terrorism and is being held at the Davidson County juvenile detention center.
"It is my understanding that at no point in time during the course of the flight there was ever any safety concern," Southwest Airlines spokesman Chris Mainz said. Bolds also said nothing threatening occurred on the flight from California to Nashville.
It was not immediately clear how police became aware of the teen's presence on the flight or his alleged suicide plans.
"Hannah Montana" is a hit Disney Channel show -- which stars 14-year-old Miley Cyrus and her country singer dad, Billy Ray Cyrus -- about a teenage girl who is a typical high-schooler by day but has a secret pop-star alter ego by night. |
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/25/fl...dent/index.html
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| Ghost Raver |
| Sweet Death... Is that you? :eek: |
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| leph555 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ghost Raver
Sweet Death... Is that you? :eek: |
couldn't be, cuz the one on the plane was a guy |
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| Acton |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ghost Raver
Sweet Death... Is that you? :eek: |
lol
..............its ok, we understand |
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| XaNaX |
| Why can't these crazies just put a gun to their head and pull the trigger? Now everyone wants to kill themselves and take a bunch of other people with them. |
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| idoru |
:stongue:
Really now, they thought he posed a serious threat? Let's get the facts straight here...
1.) 16 years old.
2.) Had no weapons on him.
C.) People thought one sixteen year-old could overpower an entire flight crew, break into the cockpit and subdue two or three grown men... on his own. Not to mention the passengers that would be stopping him.
#.) They thought he would actually be able to fly the plane into a specified target.
I really don't know who's more stupid here. The kid himself or the people that thought he actually could've done it. |
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| leph555 |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
#.) They thought he would actually be able to fly the plane into a specified target.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator does wonders |
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| Dr. DAS |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
:stongue:
Really now, they thought he posed a serious threat? Let's get the facts straight here...
1.) 16 years old.
2.) Had no weapons on him.
C.) People thought one sixteen year-old could overpower an entire flight crew, break into the cockpit and subdue two or three grown men... on his own. Not to mention the passengers that would be stopping him.
#.) They thought he would actually be able to fly the plane into a specified target.
I really don't know who's more stupid here. The kid himself or the people that thought he actually could've done it. |
+1
What makes them think he could actually find the venue from the air, at night, anyways?
And MS Flight Simulator? Give me a break...it might provide you the basic physics of flight, but why do airline pilots spend so many hours in a multi-million dollar simulator? For fun? Just maintaining a balance between pitch, yaw, roll and thrust input required to make a controlled turn in a commercial airliner...and by 'controlled' I mean not stalling the thing and having it fall out of the sky on you, is beyond the capabilities of a civillian. This is why the 9/11 hijackers attended flight schools. You can't just roll the wings and pull back to turn like in a smaller craft or on a PS2 game, these things need miles of airspace to turn at speed. This kid is obviously an idiot. As soon as the captain noticed something was going on, he could have engaged the autopilot and the kid would never have been able to deactivate it, let alone get through the cockpit door - which is now locked and reinforced per post-9/11 FAA regulations.
And Hannah Montana? Really? You can't think of a better target than that? |
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| Lira |
Pics of the said teen? :stongue:
I mean, it's sad and all but... how the hell would he overpower the crew with handcuffs and duct tape?! |
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| UWM |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
how the hell would he overpower the crew with handcuffs and duct tape?! |
Anything's possible. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by UWM
Anything's possible. |
Thanks for reminding me :stongue: |
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| inconspicuous |
| ing lol @ hannah montana. |
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