NYC to Israel Flight Grounded Due to Unruly Passenger

2009_04_delta.jpg A flight that had taken off from JFK heading for Tel Aviv was quickly diverted after a passenger charged at the cockpit trying to get in. The plane and its 206 passengers landed safely at Logan International Airport in Boston. 22-year-old Israel citizen Itay Atmor was charged with interfering with a flight after the incident which an official emphasized was "not an act of terrorism." A Massachusetts Port Authority spokesman told reporters, "He was making some noise and banging on doors, possibly the cockpit. But he was subdued by some passengers who wrestled him to the ground." Delta Flight 86 had left JFK at 7:55 p.m. and touched down at Logan around 10.

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That's why El-Al interviews all passengers before boarding and does intensive profiling (to heck with hurt sensibilities!). to avoid stuff like this or worse. Here, in the US, we get random patdowns of little old ladies ( never mind the middle eastern young man behind her) and confiscate tweezers.

The Israelis, know that you can never find all the weapons (Lexan knives) but that you can perceive who is a risk as long as you do away with political correctness.

Oh give me a break, do you really think the TSA or El-Al screens middle eastern men LESS than little old ladies? Show proof or I'm calling your BS.

Everyone gets screened, since a pregnant Irish woman named Anne Murphy was caught in a plot to blow up an Israeli airport. Sheesh, learn your history man

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