Airplane Passenger Opens Door, Diverts Flight to St. Louis

By Douglas V. Gibbs

A passenger on board a flight to Chicago from Houston opened a door near the front of the plane, forcing the pilots to divert the flight to St. Louis. The man was detained by an air marshal on board the plane. After the individual was removed from the flight, and in the process of being interviewed by law enforcement, the plane was allowed to continue to its destination.

The article referenced at the end of this post indicates that "There was no indication that there was any terrorist threat."

The article referenced also never mentions the word "Muslim," or makes any direct statements to the possibility that the disruptive passenger was Islamic or an Arab.

However, as hard as they tried to avoid indicating so, clues in the article suggest that the passenger may have been Muslim, or at least suspected to have terrorist ties.

The quote in the article from a statement given by one of the passengers that also used to be a reporter: "It felt very inevitable," said Olkon, who had just been reading articles in The New York Times about the death of Osama Bin Laden. "I started shaking and tears were coming out of my eyes. My heart was pounding through my chest."

If after reading articles about Osama bin Laden this individual began to shake and cry during this ordeal, it suggests that the unruly passenger had something in common with Osama. The logical conclusion would be that the two had a Muslim connection.

Olkon also said, according to the article, that law enforcement authorities boarded the plane parked at the gate in St. Louis to inspect for explosives. Law enforcement officials searching for explosives also suggests that there was something that gave them the idea that there may be explosives on the plane. The possibility of explosives on the plane suggests that they believed the disruptive passenger may have been a terrorist, once again suggesting that he may have been Muslim.

In this world of political correctness, one wonders why the media does all it can to avoid revealing the possibility that the disruptive passenger was Muslim. Why the concessions? Why the avoidance of the truth?

For conservative readers of this piece, those questions are rhetorical.

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Passenger tries to open door; plane diverted - Chicago Tribune