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you enjoyed your flight with Delta!")
Air marshal aimed gun in Delta cabin
August 31, 2002 Posted: 11:19 PM EDT (0319 GMT)
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A federal air marshal pointed a gun
towards passengers on a flight from Atlanta to Philadelphia for about 30
minutes Sat urday while detaining an unruly passenger, travelers said.
Passengers on Delta Flight 442 said that one marshal kept his weapon pointed
at the coach cabin while the other huddled over the detainee, who was
released after the plane landed.
"He had the cockpit door to his back, and he is pointing his weapon toward
the tail" said Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge James A. Lineberger. The
marshal "had the cabin folks under siege," he said.
"If he would have accidentally fired, he would have killed somebody or hurt
somebody," said passenger David Johnson, 51.
Federal prosecutors declined to charge the detainee after discussing the
incident with the marshals, FBI spokeswoman Jerri Williams said Saturday. She
wouldn't release his name or elaborate on the incident.
Transportation Security Administration spokesman David Steigman said air
marshals "dealt with a passenger who was acting in an odd and obstreperous
manner." He refused to say whether the marshal pointed a gun.
A Delta spokeswoman declined comment on the incident.
Johnson and his wife, Susan, of Mobile, Alabama, said they noticed a man
talking to a female passenger sitting in the row behind him about an hour
after the flight began.
Shortly after noon, they said, marshals took the man into custody in the
first-class section of the plane, which had 183 passengers aboard.
The government has had federal air marshals patrolling planes since the
1980s, but put hundreds more in the air after the September 11 hijackings of
four jetliners that crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a
western Pennsylvania field.
Copyright 2002 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may
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