When airline staff aboard Sunday's Frontier flight from Denver to Detroit noticed a couple in the bathroom for "an extraordinarily long time," they notified the Transportation Security Authority. It quickly turned into a scene reminiscent of a high school gossip movie...starring our scariest government agencies.
The TSA told the FBI who told NORAD, who immediately told two F-16 fighter jets to escort the plane to Detroit's Metropolitan Airport. After a SWAT team with boarded the plane on the tarmac, three people were escorted from the plane in cuffs.
A passenger on the plane told the Associated Press that SWAT instructed everyone to "put your hands on the seat in front of you. Don't move." They brought on three K-9 dogs, and led the three suspects off the plane.
Official FBI reports indicate the couple wasn't feeling well and needed to use the restroom. According to ABC News, however, the people in the bathroom were simply "making out."
People, we get it. Being up in the air makes us want to do crazy things, too. Horomones run wild, impulses get out of control. But cool your jets around the cockpit -- especially around September 11th.
Brad Mielke is a writer, editor, and aspiring bandit. His work has appeared in the New York Daily News, amNewYork, and ABC News. When not busy teaching himself to glide effortlessly past security guards at New York venues, he enjoys discovering new comedy acts and soccer bars.
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