Incident on Another Amsterdam-to-Detroit Flight

MICHELINE MAYNARD and ELISABETH BUMILLER
The New York Times
December 27, 2009

DETROIT — The pilots of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit — the same flight involved in Friday’s terrorism attempt — requested emergency assistance Sunday upon landing in Detroit, an airport spokesman said.

The crew had requested police assistance on the ground because a passenger was “verbally disruptive,” according to a statement from Delta Airlines, which acquired Northwest last year.

The Transportation Safety Administration said in a statement that it had been alerted to a “disruptive passenger on board” Flight 253. The T.S.A. said that the flight landed safely at Detroit International Airport at approximately 12:35 p.m. Eastern “without incident.”

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This article was posted: Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 3:37 pm

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