[Updated 11:30 p.m.] Law enforcement officials on Saturday night were interviewing passengers and crew members aboard a United Airlines flight after a "suspicious message" was found in the plane's lavatory, although the message was later determined to be a hoax.
[Posted 9:43 p.m.] Law enforcement officials on Saturday night were interviewing passengers and crew members aboard a United Airlines flight after a "suspicious message" was found in the plane's lavatory.
Flight 148 from Chicago, Illinois, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, landed shortly before 7 p.m. at Philadelphia International Airport, after the crew reported to air traffic controllers the discovery of the message, a spokesman for the airline said.
Holly Baker, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said a bomb threat was written on the lavatory mirror.
The Transportation Security Administration said in a statement that the plane landed without incident.
"Out of an abundance of caution, the plane was directed to a remote location and is being met by law enforcement and TSA," the statement said.
The incident is under investigation, airport and United officials said.
A law enforcement source told CNN that all 112 passengers and five crew members will be interviewed, and all luggage searched, a process that is expected to take hours.
– CNN's Alona Rivord and Susan Candiotti contributed to this report.
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So if these were terrorists, I assume that they were illegal aliens and that they will be granted legal citizenship under Obama’s plan. In addition Nancy Pelosi will find a way to give them money from our retirement.
Joan Gray, message number 30 - Well said! So many of the people posting messages appear as raving lunatics whose inability to construct a sentence or check their spelling reflects their inability to coherently put thoughts together. Unable to do that, they completely lose their credibility in the eyes of those who can.
Everyone is so quick to say that all the illegal immigrants are Hispanic and from Mexico. There are many illegal immigrants from all over the world. The Europeans are big in the mafia world and into human trafficking. The Asians are big in drugs. There are people from all over the world that come to the US to make a better life for their families and themselves. I am so tired of everyone saying its all Hispanics. No one minds when that illegal Hispanic cleans your house or your car, or better yet your yard or makes your restaurant food. They work long hours in the fields picking our vegetables and fruits for dirt pay. They are not taking away our jobs, they are simply working the jobs that our citizens to do not want to work. Instead there are many blacks, whites and Hispanics, that are legal that do not want to work, instead collect welfare, food stamps, state health insurance for their kids, disability, unemployment. They get a new job and work for less than 30 days and get themselves fired so they can stay at home and do nothing and collect unemployment. I know I have seen it working in HR. The employers do not make the decision on who gets unemployment, the unemployment office does. That office is usually filled with under educated and over worked people that really do not know how to judge and unemployment case because they do not understand the employment laws.
Then there is all the violence on the street. Illegal’s that come to work here do not bring in the violence, the violence was already here. Chicago Southside is a great example of this. Every day you see someone getting shot or violence in the schools. My old neighborhood in North Chicago, right by Wrigleville, is filled with blacks that sit on the corner and smoked crack, drink forties and stand on the corner selling drugs. Did everyone forget about the violence that has been created here in the US by our own citizens?? I am not saying that the Mexican cartels have not brought in violence, yes they have, but so have the European mobs, the Asians mobs and so forth. The government has to deal with this and correct the issue……people have to stop being STUPID and listening to the media and look at the reality of the situation. Our tax dollars pay for a lot. Paying for healthcare for illegals isn’t an issue, at least not for me. People deserve to be able to see the doctor. If you complain about that, then in my opinion you are a monster. Because only a monster could deny healthcare to a human being because they are not a citizen of the country. I am more concerned about my tax dollars paying for low income housing that is not needed that will only bring more violence and drugs to an community already filled with violence. In Chicago, Alderman Schiller put of close to $60 million dollars to build low income housing. We all know that nothing good comes from this, especially in an area where violence is getting worse. Who paid for this, the citizens with our real estate property taxes going through the roof? Not one shred of money has been put toward cleaning our streets, fixing our potholes that ruin our cars, clearing our streets during snowstorms. Instead it goes to cost of$400K for each unit in this low income housing building to be made. Most condos have gone down in value yet the city is spending $400k a unit. WTF!!! So stop saying the illegals are entirely to blame for causing all these issues on the tax payers, or bringing in all the violence or hiking our tax bills. Terrorist hate us because of the bad decisions our governments have made. Yet our governments would rather spend billions of dollars helping other countries to have democracy. But Mexico they leave in the cold. Our government could have put all the money they spent on the world and their problems to helping immigration, or our recession and trying to work with Mexico and other Latin American countries to put a halt to these cartels. They can help by taxing these companies that outsource and cause our citizens to lose jobs; they can help by taxing these casinos on the Indian reservations. They can help by taxing these big corporations that take advantage of their workers, by consistently hiking up the employee’s healthcare premium and cutting healthcare benefits so the employer pays less. So much that they can do here but the government would rather help other countries that in my opinion are not worthy of our help.
This is just my 2 cents. Comment on how stupid you think it is or whatever…..it’s my opinion nothing more nothing less.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
lmao @ the lemming iTard that attempted to play a stupid joke and got DIVERTED FROM HIS/HER INTENDED DESTINATION AND THEN HELD FOR HOURS FOR QUESTIONING!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....way to go you dumber than schnit, should be labotomized to increase your brain power imbecile, oxygen theif!!!
what a typical lemming moron!!!
someone do us all a favor.......and put all the iTard lemmings OUT OF OUR MISERY!!!
of course, we'd have less than 5% of the world population remaining.....BUT THAT WOULD BE A GREAT START!!!
Let me get this straight. Somebody scrawls a threat on an airplane mirror and the flight is diverted "out of an abundance of caution." Ok, I can buy that. But after looking at the article several times, I can't find any reference to any ethnic group or even any hint of a suspect's race, gender or identity.
So, how did it come to be a hispanic's fault or any other group mentioned?
And mnaddawg, the correct term is "lobotomized," not "labotomized." Perhaps before suggesting someone undergo that procedure to "increase your brain power imbecile" you should take remedial english and learn to spell and the basics of proper sentence structure.
And, should anyone come for those you suggest be surgically altered and considered a "lemming" or, "oxygen thief," perhaps they might start with you.
Always depressing to see what passes for intelligent discourse on these sites. Supposed adults communicating like petulant middle schoolers. No wonder this country is in such a mess.
Anyhoo, I think we should start treating the hoaxers, disruptive passengers and belligerent drunks on flights the same way we treat actual terrorists. They cause the same level of trouble and their bad behavior only makes the awful experience of air travel that much worse. If these bad actors were threatened with being duct-taped to their chair by an air marshall only to be released to spend time in a federal penitentiary I bet there would be far fewer sports stars, celebrities and politicos who fight turning off their darn cell phones and maybe some of these oh so clever 'hoaxers' would give it a second thought.
terrorists are mean
You guys are really crazy on message boards.
I guess when you have a miserable life and can not stand a single waking moment in your own skin you find the fact you can hide on the internet and act like you are an expert in aviation and terrorisim is ...well golly folks...it is downright hilarious.
Keep up the good work you miserable self centered idiots. How can there be so many comments about taxes, obama, terrorism, patriot act, vietnam...
DUDE WROTE ON A FRIGGIN MIRROR!!! This is why all of you work in cubicles fielding calls or cold calling others AND NOT THE EXPERTS.
Note to posters: Watching CSI weekly does not make you know EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING...LOL
Like 'Kevin" I failed to see any hint of accusation towards any specific ethnic group! Yet people here jump to the comclusion that it had to be some illegal alien terrorist!
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What has our country become that we accuse certain groups without proof?
I am seriously ashamed of some of my fellow americans!
"Did your husband have fish or beef for dinner?"
"Shirley you jest.."
"Don't call me Shirley."
Airplane–1980
It was a Hooters Plane filled with hot 18-21 yr. old white caucausion females. I was redundant with the white/caucausion part for any of you Palin supporters. You got to double down on your whiteness with those folks or they will shoot your like a Moose from a Helicopter.
Anywhoo...rest assured it was not Al Qaeda, illegal immigrants (god you guys make me laugh), BUT IT WAS BOOBY QAEDA.
HA..you were all wrong.
The "bomb" was a "bombshell" Dumb hot chic saw herself in the mirror and thought, "I am the bomb" and then proceeded to write "There is a bomb on this plane ...hellz ya..play on girlfriend".
Just a big misunderstanding. But thanks for all the psychotic theories I read on the way down the board...you guys might want to talk to a shrink. Some of you really put way too much thought into things!!!
I just want the skies to be friendly again. How about we drop all the racism, religious backbiting and name-calling and focus on the moral of the story. Our airlines are under siege. We have to find a way to make air travel safe. I hate to say it but extreme measures are in order. I don’t have the solutions but I am willing to accept changes that might offend some, including myself.
Scoobiesnaks is a moron..
To those of you who are protesting the new Arizona Law. You need to change the FEDERAL LAW that makes it illegal to come into the US by sneeking over he border. That would save money as wouldn't need border patrol, police, jails, or immigration people. Let them all get jobs, buy houses and provide insurance. Of course, that means anyone can come in and out at will. We can always use more drug dealers and terrorists. Yah, don't just protest. Change the laws and make it all legal. What a great place the US would be. God help us all if that should happen,.
I wrote this is cool because it was my first time blogging & it's cool. The bomb threat is not cool. It was ridiculous and costly. The guilty should be fined bigtime.