“Threatening Note” Diverts Plane Departing Detroit

May 8, 2011 4:35 PM

A Delta Air Lines flight from Detroit to San Diego that was diverted to Albuquerque. (iStockPhoto)

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DETROIT (WWJ) – An airport spokesman said a Delta Air Lines flight from Detroit to San Diego was diverted to Albuquerque, New Mexico on Saturday morning after authorities investigated a “potential security threat.”

A friend of three of the passengers on Flight 1706 told WWJ that the plane was evacuated after a threatening note was found in the bathroom.

Delta Flight 1706 passenger Tim Cole described what the captain told passengers before the plane was diverted.

“The first time the captain came on, he said that there was a threat. The next time he came on to give us more details he said that there had been a note left in one of the lavatories,” he said.

The FBI interviewed some of the passengers who were taken off the plane.

Albuquerque International Sunport airport spokesman Daniel Jiron said the plane was held in a “remote location” at the airport before it was cleared for takeoff again.

Jiron said the 107 passengers aboard the flight were interviewed, as was the crew.

An FBI spokesman says authorities found “no suspicious devices” on the plane, but declined to clarify the nature of the threat.

The flight, Delta 1706, was diverted at 10 a.m.

Threatening Note Diverts Plane Departing Detroit

Wally Triplett

Detroit needs to be a service city, and renovating the airport and the area around it would provide jobs for the “less educated to the highly technical” people, and this would restore it’s school system, and small businesses and make the Eastern Market a productive place again. The need for small private jet service for the local teams & teams coming to Detroit is vital. Also, building a Seaport for the St.Lawrence seaway would also create 3 shift jobs, and transportation for the area. Detroit will NEVER be a “production city” again but can provide services to the world because of it’s location…

Carl Asher

1) Detroit already has a new, multibillion dollar airport

2) Eastern Market is one of the few areas of the city that is positively booming.

3) Detroit is one of the buyest ports on the Seaway.

2-late-2-matter

Carl Asher is correct. Detroit has already spent gobs of dollar$ to keep its citizens employed and out of the soup kitchens.

It could do more IMHO with its busy, perfectly-positioned waterfront however.
joshbot

BE AFRAID! Freedom is dangerous. The Constitution is the threat. If you don’t surrender your rights you hate America. Do not watch Fabled Enemies at youtube or ask questions.

starykozel

Detroit – who needs Detroit? Are you going to finance your suggested renovation works there on your own? I will refuse to do so! As you stated, it will not be production city ever again. Storage city? Storing dead-beats who cannot read and multiply? Oh, they do know really well how to multiply, but only themselves, expecting that we will continue to feed them…..

Steve S.

I couldn’t have said it better myself. Detroit only now has porch sitting slugs who will never work. All they want from life is a gov’t handout.

mike

you obviously watch to much tv

Doug

DETROIT – PRIME OBAMA VOTING TERRITORY. (ACTUALLY, IF THE GOVERNMENT ENFORCED THE NO FELON CAN VOTE LAW, OBAMA WOULD GET ABOUT 3 VOTES.)

mike

another clueless outsider, Detroit airport is brand new best in the Nation, Detroit is overtaking Silicon valley, Eastern Market already rocks, Metro Detroit has plenty of airports around it all of the under renovations &additions, The seaport just upgraded, River Walk extended, We are getting ready to build a second bridge with Canada to better assist heavy exports. keep up your ignorance

Dewey

WTH are you talking about?
Osama

I smell something fishy here
Fanny Forbes Franklen

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” ~ H. L. Mencken

———- http://911essentials.com

Do they teach grammar in Detroit?

Who writes these articles? This is the second article from Detroit that I have read that has grammatical errors. The first being about the illiteracy rate in Detroit and now this one. “The FBI is interviewed some of the passengers who were taken off the plane.”

JackKristof

“This is the second article from Detroit that I have read that has HAD grammatical errors.”

You might want to proof read your own work before getting down on someone else.

You sure is real smart, did ya’all go to some fancy college or somethin?
TomB

Actually, Jack, either can be correct. Since both articles are still in print and the error is still there, they exist in the present tense, so “has grammatical errors” is grammatically correct. Yours may be better, but this is not wrong.

Now, do you have any actual response to FFF, or are you one of those trolls who think that pointing out spelling and/or grammar errors automatically nullifies someone’s point with which you do not agree?

2-late-2-matter

Congrats. Every MBA degree graduate learns of the Chaos Theory in application to business management. Thus, their roles as arbiters are secured.

nuisance

You know, if this note wasn’t planted by someone in the government to scare us, I might believe it. It might help if you’re planning on placing a scary note someplace, at least try to put it somewhere people are literate.
Count Yob

An anonymous source has disclosed the text of the “threatening note”:

Some come here to sit and think
I come here to f**t and s***k

Huck Pituey

Unfortunately, the spelling and grammar were so horrible, authorities were unable to decipher the meaning of the note or even determine what language it was (supposed to be) written in. OTOH, their assumption that people from Detroit are a threat was pretty much spot-on!

jspiers

Spam to try to sell your book much? Proof the book is a joke… SPAM!
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bubba-thump

the frightening note said “Out of toilet paper”.

Laughing in CA

Freaking hilarious. I really use “LOL” since I rarely (actually) laugh outloud about things I read, but this deserves it:

LOL!

Touche, good sir/ma’am/ probably sir.

August Dunning

Tiberuis Franklin 3minutes ago

Well, now that the TSA is squeezing your balls looking for terrorists let’s look at the evidence of an al queda 911

Is there any repetitive events on that date?

yes there is!

september 11 1776 – Franklin tells British adm. Howe, we will not rescind our declaration of independence on Staten Island, 4 days later Howe attacks Gen Washington BY SURPRISE on manhattan island at the battle of Manhattan. a year later we take staten island from the british at the battle of fresh kills.

september 11 1812 – British sink american ships and start the war of 1812, raid our coastlines, burned the whitehouse

september 11 1864 – british financed union troops burn atlanta to the ground – the capital of the american merchantile trade – their global competitor

september 11 1912 – british rhodes scholar Edward House, meets with JP Morgan, Sam Chase and Goldman to plan the jekyll island secret meeting to put wilson in the whitehouse, and bring in graduated income tax, a right to work, a demand for cataloging all the living resources animal and human.

september 11 2001 another SURPRISE ATTACK on trade buldings on top of the location of the battle of manhattan in 1776, and the dead are buried at fresh kills garbage dump on top of the location of teh battle of Freshkills in 1777

now really people, copy and past this and spread it around. We are at war with a banking RICO orchestrated out of the central banks and the Bank of London, the majority share holder of the Federal REserve Bank of New York.

It seems clear to me that we should now start paying attention to the fact that 50,000 FEMA officers have been hired, the entire military is out of the country, concentration camps have been built by Halliburton – are empty but manned with guards, the fox is in the hen house

and the fat 40 something TSA guy just put his fingers up your daughters vagina…

Now is the time to act, we may never get a better chance to bring back our republic for our ancestors; Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Washington…and all those that died to protect our freedoms from the likes of TSA, the Banks and the Democracy turd we have as a ruler, not a government.

Kim

WOW it all adds up to 19. The mother ship is hovering. Calipso Louie was right..

JackFKristof

The “banned book” that you describe can be purchased from Amazon as of 1 min ago.

I agree with the Obamee comment but you might want to turn your radio off and go outside. Or leave your mother basement for a couple hours
Kim

Hey can I smell the TSA guy’s finger? just asking
Huck Pituey

My heart goes out to anybody who missed a connection or lost any baggage.
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NoFredom

We have become a nation oif cowards. Our government is now at the final stages of totally controlling the American people. We are fools and we are stupid. The greatest people in the world are told by our government to be “afraid” of bombs at the mall, airport, trains and they will protect us by taking away our freedom of speech, privacy and even our property. I am ashamed of us because “We the People will give up (give to our government) everything that our ancestors have fought and died for! For God’s sake! We have our youth fighting, dying and being mutilated over seas for what??? To protect us from what??? Bin Laden, a former CIA freedom fighter that we trained, gave weapons and money to, to fight the Russans? Now Bin Laden is dead!!! You fools, he has been dead for years and the US government is using this joke to scare us into submission and control.

Now if a person videotapes the TSA then they get arrested??? What the hell?? People should be going in groups to airports with their cellphones and videotaping EVERY person being searched in security. What is the government going to do? Arest every American and throw them in jail?

I will never post again….I am ashamed of the cowards we’ve become. We have the Constitution to stand with us. Peacefully standing up and saying you can’t and won’t do this to us. If you think our government cares about us and would never lie to us then google “Operation Northwoods”. This was a false flag that the military did in the 60′s to have an excuse to invade Cuba. Thankfully Kennedy said “NO! You guys are insane!” Then later he was killed.

Don’t play into this….stand together as Americans…our children deserve to be free rather than a future of chains.
JoshB

Ahh, gotta love it when Drudgereport links to your local newspaper. You get thousands of conspiracy theorists flooding your comment page with their crazy.
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Matt

My guess is they went to one of those big city, northern schools and you’re trying to cast a doubt by throwing in Southern lingo.
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Buck Keely

“The purpose of terrorism is to terrorise, sounds like it is working… We are living in fear of an unseen enemy.. until we live our lives ready to kill or be killed we will live in the shadow of terror. Let us live and let us die free in our pursuit of life and liberty.
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Big Boii

HI
Rick

Josh your so right LOL (I really did)
Gunny G

Hate the TSA? Hate taking your shoes off? Getting groped? Getting X-Rayed? Having your 1st and 4th Amendment routinely violated?

Then thank a Muslim.
Buck Keely

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorise, sounds like it is working… We are living in fear of an unseen enemy.. until we live our lives ready to kill or be killed we will live in the shadow of terror. Let us live and let us die free in our pursuit of life and liberty.
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Buck
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Heirloom Seed, “How God plants His garden.”
LorrieM

if you knew anything, you would know that Detroit Metro Airport IS NOT IN DETROIT! It’s in Romulus — quite a distance from Detroit. Metro Airport already has been upgraded, houses ripped out from long established neighborhoods, and families moving (mostly) out of state.

Make a valid point, or just sit on your thumbs instead of spouting off unintelligible jibberish.