Imagine if it was a muslim, or even a middle eastern looking man. Then the head 
news everywhere would have been "A terrorist tries..." or "Heroic crew and 
passengers subdue a terrorist on plane".


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Passenger Arrested After Trying to Open Door During Flight
Sunday , August 26, 2007



DENVER - 

A passenger tried to open a plane door during a Frontier Airlines flight on 
Saturday morning but was subdued by airline staff and passengers, an airline 
spokesman said. 
Police and Transportation Security Administration staff met Flight 514 after 
the plane landed in New York City and took the man into custody, said Frontier 
spokesman Joe Hodas.

Hodas said the man, whose name was not released, would not have been able to 
open the door even if he had not been subdued. "You need special training to 
open the door," he said.

There were 128 passengers and five crew members on the plane, Hodas said.

Passenger Bobby Vigil of Estes Park told KUSA-TV in Denver that the man had 
been acting strangely. Vigil said he and other passengers helped a flight 
attendant tie the man to his seat with duct tape.

"The whole rest of the flight, all the way in, he was yelling and trying to 
bite the tape, and they ended up restraining him with an extra lap belt," said 
Vigil.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294632,00.html

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