Passengers On NW Plane Tell Of Air Marshal Action

Passengers aboard a Northwest Airlines plane bound for Mumbai and forced to turn back to Amsterdam said air marshals swooped after 12 people began fidgeting with mobile phones and plastic bags, Dutch media said on Thursday.

The 12 were arrested on Wednesday after the plane landed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. Prosecution authorities said they were still holding the 12 but would not give their identities or nationalities.

“I saw the air marshals run and I knew something was amiss,” a 31-year-old businessman aboard the plane told Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad.

“Some had beards, others were unshaven, one was wearing a robe. Some had baseball caps,” another passenger told the paper.

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