Yet again, terror in the air. Can we call it a trend now?

[Philosoraptor]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/25/jets.diverted.ap/index.html

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (AP) -- A U.S. Airways jet flying to North Carolina was diverted to Oklahoma City after an air marshal subdued a passenger involved in an incident with a flight attendant, an airline spokesman said.

Law enforcement officers were questioning the passenger after the jet landed at Will Rogers World Airport, said Morgan Durrant, a U.S. Airways spokesman. He did not disclose the nature of the problem between the passenger and the flight attendant.

The Airbus A321, which left Phoenix at 6:15 a.m., was to resume its flight to Charlotte, Durrant said. There were 141 people including crew members on board.

Also Friday, an American Airlines flight from Manchester, England, to Chicago was diverted to Bangor, Maine, for security reasons, authorities said.

[bdamomma]

1. paranoid in the air is more like it.

[seriousstan]

8. Assholes on planes and zero tolerance for it is more like it.

[I_Will]

11. Thank goodness we won't be fighin' 'em over here...

...or else we'd have all sorts of security scares grounding flights and pre-boarding hassles of children and old women and "guilty until proven innocent" assumptions for everybody.

[ginnyinWI]

12. exactly so!

Everybody is so jumpy about it that if you look sideways on a flight, they put the plane down at the nearest airport.

Is this part of the American character, to be so afraid? I never thought so before, but it seems that the Brits and others who've been terror victims are much braver.

[Subdivisions]

2. Yeah! What's up with all the planes dropping out of the sky

today for security reasons. Are they trying to scare people half to death?

An Irish jet, Oklahoma City and Bangor...anymore?

[bdamomma]

3. those airline companies are going to lose alot of money

people do not need this paranoia.

[Monkeyman]

4. Three on the ground this one Denver, Bangor M.

[orpupilofnature57]

5. No it's a way of life , I predict tons of alerts in 08

[gkhouston]

14. No. I predict tons of alerts in September in October of 2008.

There will be a sharp decrease in mid-November. :7

[FSogol]

6. * = The boy who cried wolf" How'd it turn out in that book? n/t

[Dr.Phool]

7. I hope the "terrorists" take the week-end off.

I'm flying to St. Louis for a wedding tomorrow.

Then I can come back Tuesday to a probable hurricane in the Gulf.

[Monkeyman]

9. Now that they know your flying lol

[Dr.Phool]

13. If they let me on the plane.

I haven't flown for about a year now.

[snappyturtle]

10. This is to be expected.

We had better act scared and in need of our gov't's protection or I'm sure they'll have something bigger to sufficiently scare us. Ridiculous.

[focusfan]

15. More FLUFF than Terror