2nd Incident on Another Detroit Bound Flight 253

Update:The traveler in question had “spent a lengthy time in the restroom,” FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said.

“This raised concerns so an alert was raised. … The investigation shows that this was a non-serious incident and all is clear at this point,” she said.

The passenger was released after questioning, Berchtold said.

The man used the bathroom several times during the trip and refused to come out as the plane was preparing to land, said Lester Robinson, head of the Wayne County Airport Authority.

Deja vu? WXYZ is reporting on an incident in which law enforcement sources say a second Nigerian man was ill when he locked himself in a restroom aboard a flight arriving at Detroit Metro Airport. As with Friday’s incident, the flight, flight 253 was en route from Amsterdam to Detroit.

The man in the restroom was taken into custody, though law enforcement sources now say no explosive devices have been found.

All 255 remaining passengers aboard the flight were evacuated from the plane which had been taken to a far runway area.

Passenger luggage was removed from the plane and placed on the tarmac where security dogs examined it.

One official says the man locked himself in the airplane’s bathroom.

A Delta Airlines spokesperson says crew members asked security to remove the man from Flight 253 after he became disruptive.

This second Nigerian man was aboard Northwest Flight 253 – the same flight number as Friday’s flight where a Nigerian man named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has been charged with attempting to destroy the aircraft and placing a destructive device on board.

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Debbie Schlussel has a different ‘take’ on what may be going on….

That’s why I don’t believe the claim that a Nigerian who was an unruly passenger, today, on the same Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight was “merely ill” and was a “businessman” (as if being a businessman and being a terrorist are mutually exclusive by the laws of nature), as authorities and the airline are now telling us. I think there’s far more to the story than authorities and Delta Air Line (which owns Northwest) are letting on. It’s not just that the man spent an hour in the bathroom. It’s that the FBI arrested him upon arrival in Detroit. Why arrest the guy if he was merely “sick”? Does this sound like a “merely sick businessman” to you?

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