It all started when a rider on a Ghana - bound United flight of stairs out of D.C. ’s Dulles Airport decided to recumb his nates . That pissed off the passenger behind him , head to an interchange of heated words between the men , and the recliner being “ smacked in the head . ” That ’s good : the very act you ’ve fantasize about countless times before , but never dare actually do , because you are a civilized human being and not mad . But countenance ’s just for a instant say that you are n’t . Have you ever question what might happen if you smacked your fellow rider in the head after a massive jet have off ? Here ’s what befall :
First , a flying attender and another passenger “ jumped in between , ” the Washington Postreports . Alerted to the fracas , the cowcatcher decided to spin the Boeing 767 back to Dulles to countenance the authorities sort things out , rather than chance the transatlantic flight to Ghana with two fickle and potentially violent passengers .
Small trouble : The jet had 16,700 Imperial gallon of fuel in it , which weigh 57 tons . That is a lot of fuel ! you’re able to not land a jet with that much fuel in it . So air traffic control instructed the pilot burner to fell for half an 60 minutes and burn off the supernumerary weight .
That ’s when the Air Force got involved :
Audio transmission point that the two Air Force fighters scrambled from Andrews Air Force Base at 11:03 p.m , just as the plane reentered Washington airspace .
Five minutes later , [ two F-16 ] fighter escorts charter up position 1,000 feet above the jetliner as it headed toward Dulles , root articulate .
The sheet eventually bring , and Dulles police were waiting at the logic gate . After an investigation , both passengers were lease go and no burster were pressed . The trajectory , meanwhile , was delayed until the following break of day .
It was unclear whether they were on the escape when it left Monday morning time or , if so , where they sit down , United spokesman Mike Trevino said .
That would be a fairly awkward reunification at the logic gate . “ We now receive all passengers whose want of ego - control led directly to an Air Force intervention and the night we all just drop in a seedy drome hotel to not ever board the aircraft . ” [ Washington Post , photo via Shutterstock ]
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