Emergency landing in Albuquerque. Some guy was hand cuffed and removed from the plane because he was making threats. I was watching Frozen.
— Zach Louis (@ZachLouis4Realz) December 26, 2014
In ways big and small, the Ferguson insanity seeps in.
Via NBC:
A passenger’s loud singing and references to Ferguson, Missouri, was behind Thursday’s diversion of a Los Angeles-bound jet, officials said in their report of the incident.
Delta Flight 81, traveling from Atlanta to Los Angeles, made the unscheduled stop at Albuquerque International Sunport just after 6 p.m. Thursday so that a first-class passenger could be removed from the plane, in what a passenger said was described as a “security issue.”
An incident report shows that issue was a 27-year-old Wichita man’s singing aloud to music playing from his headphones, which bothered other passengers. When he was asked by another passenger and later a flight attendant to stop, the passenger “made references to the recent Ferguson Missouri incident” and “also stated he was being harassed because he was black,” according to an incident report released by airport police. The upset and crying passenger went to the restroom several times “and it became a concern to the flight crew” and prompted the diversion, aviation police said in their report.