Plane Delayed In Lynchburg After Suspicious Comments
May 31, 2009 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
A flight heading to Charlotte from Lynchburg had to be delayed because of comments made by a passenger.
The 23-year-old man was in the lobby of the airport around 2:30 Sunday afternoon when he was overheard talking on his cell phone. Witnesses say he told whomever he was speaking with that the plane wouldn’t make it to Charlotte and that it would fall out of the sky.
He broke his phone in half when he was approached by Transportation Security Administration officials. He told them he had he was God, but he was injured so he couldn’t show them his powers.
He then told deputies with the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office that he had been treated at a mental hospital in West Virginia.
The man was taken to Lynchburg General Hospital on an emergency custody order for a mental evaluation. He was not charged with anything.
Explosives trained dogs searched his luggage, his car, and the airplane, but they didn’t find anything suspicious.
