Breaking News! Delta Flight escorted into CVG Airport

[j]

I truly wasn't making light of the precautions. I'm in favor of any precaution they feel is necessary ti insure our safety.

I'll withold further comment till I have the whole story

[Stephanie]

I didn't think you were making light of the situation j!

I think the problem is that we're getting bits and pieces of information and not the whole story yet. We're left to make our own assumptions.

Hopefully it is nothing more than a case of being overly cautious.

[cycloneye]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/01/06/french ... index.html

Here is the whole story of what happened with this situation that turned out not a bad one but after 9/11 anything suspisious has to be checked out.

[Miss Mary]

For the latest local article on the story go to:

http://www.cincynow.com/news/2004/local ... plane.html

Mary

[Miss Mary]

One more local article, to anyone interested:

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http://www.wcpo.com/news/2004/local/01/06/flight43.html

Passengers Talk About Flight 43 Incident

Reported by: Shawn Ley
Web produced by: Stacy Puzo
Photographed by: 9News
1/6/04 11:41:25 PM

Passengers on Delta flight 43 were told of a security problem well before the plane landed in Cincinnati Tuesday.

An incident in Paris involving a woman wearing a heated motorcycle jacket and possessing an MP3 player led to the selection of certain passengers on the flight who were later removed and questioned upon arrival in Cincinnati.

Seven men of Middle Eastern descent were flagged for questioning.

"They didn't tell us anything till we came into the area for questioning," said Hafiz Aboudhosn, flight 43 passenger.

Aboudhosn was one of the seven people removed from flight 43.

Each passenger was taken off the plane by customs officers and airport police.

"We're all of Middle Eastern descent, it was obvious," Aboudhosn said.

Aboudhosn was born in Lebanon and was returning from a visit with family there.

Passengers were told by the captain 90 minutes prior to landing that there was a security issue. No one was allowed to leave their seats without an escort after the announcement was made.

"I was really shocked and was looking around and taking some notes of my own and everyone just kept reading and watching TV and kept really calm," Kathy Crutcher, flight 43 passenger.

Passengers said that everyone was aware of what was happening and through the whole incident fighter jets were never seen out the airplane's window. Most passengers said that had they spotted the jets, that calm would have been gone.