Passengers on two flights are arrested
Published 9:00 pm Monday, January 7, 2002
Associated Press
Passengers created problems on two flights Monday, authorities said.
A 20-year-old man was arrested Monday after security screeners at Midway Airport in Chicago found four pocket knives, a box cutter, two flares and a bottle of lighter fluid in his carry-on bag.
No other details were provided.
Elsewhere, a passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight about to depart Los Angeles International Airport, bound for Las Vegas, was arrested after he punched a flight attendant and opened the plane’s rear door, authorities said.
"He approached the rear of the aircraft with a shoe in his hand and as a flight attendant tried to prevent him from opening the rear door, he hit her in the head with his fist," and FBI spokesman said.
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