from haaretz: Pilots on an Alaska Airlines flight locked down the cockpit and alerted authorities after three passengers conducted an elaborate Orthodox Jewish prayer ritual during their Los Angeles-bound flight. Airline spokeswoman Bobbie Egan says the crew of Flight 241 from Mexico City became alarmed Sunday after the men began the tefillin ritual, which involves tying leather straps and small wooden boxes to the body. FBI and customs agents, along with police and fire crews, met the plane at the gate at Los Angeles International Airport. Airport police say two or three men were escorted off the plane, questioned by the FBI, and released. No arrests were made.
Monday, March 14, 2011
US pilots trigger terror alert over orthodox jews' tefillin ritual
not muslims? maybe they're just afraid of prayer...
from haaretz: Pilots on an Alaska Airlines flight locked down the cockpit and alerted authorities after three passengers conducted an elaborate Orthodox Jewish prayer ritual during their Los Angeles-bound flight. Airline spokeswoman Bobbie Egan says the crew of Flight 241 from Mexico City became alarmed Sunday after the men began the tefillin ritual, which involves tying leather straps and small wooden boxes to the body. FBI and customs agents, along with police and fire crews, met the plane at the gate at Los Angeles International Airport. Airport police say two or three men were escorted off the plane, questioned by the FBI, and released. No arrests were made.
from haaretz: Pilots on an Alaska Airlines flight locked down the cockpit and alerted authorities after three passengers conducted an elaborate Orthodox Jewish prayer ritual during their Los Angeles-bound flight. Airline spokeswoman Bobbie Egan says the crew of Flight 241 from Mexico City became alarmed Sunday after the men began the tefillin ritual, which involves tying leather straps and small wooden boxes to the body. FBI and customs agents, along with police and fire crews, met the plane at the gate at Los Angeles International Airport. Airport police say two or three men were escorted off the plane, questioned by the FBI, and released. No arrests were made.
