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Two F-16s out of Buckley Air Force Base were scrambled to shadow an airliner to Denver International Airport on Friday night in response to a passenger disturbance that caused the flight to be diverted to Denver.
The Condor flight was en route from Las Vegas to Frankfurt International Airport in Germany when a passenger on board was reportedly getting unruly. The flight was over Wyoming about 6 p.m. when it was diverted to DIA.
The plane landed at 6:40 p.m. and a passenger was escorted off the plane by Denver Police, TSA and FBI.
Law enforcement sources told CBS4 that a female European model was on board the flight when she requested her pet that was being kept with the other animals. She claimed it was her “comfort cat” and wanted the animal brought to her.
She apparently became unruly with the flight crew and the pilot declared an emergency and landed at DIA.
The woman was being questioned by authorities.
All the passengers had to exit the plane at DIA and received accommodations for the night. The plane is scheduled to take off from DIA on Saturday evening.
The FBI said, “The disturbance aboard the flight was deemed a customer service issue and not a life-threatening matter and the airline handled the matter according to their policy for customer service related matters. No arrest was made.”
It is unclear whether the passenger who caused the disturbance will be allowed to continue to Frankfurt.
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Public walking past pretending they haven't noticed the man in a homemade flying machine, check.
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The French intelligence agent who led the deadly attack on the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand 30 years ago has for the first time apologised for his actions.
The mines planted by Mr Kister, a naval frogman, sank the vessel in Auckland harbour, killing Mr Pereira.
Coligny wrote:Mission was: sink the boat without being detected
Result: boat was sunk good but with French fingerprints all over it, 5 out of six agents arrested and two convicted of manslaughter
France initially denied responsibility, but two French agents were captured and charged with arson, conspiracy to commit arson, willful damage, and murder. As the truth came out, the scandal resulted in the resignation of the French Defence Minister Charles Hernu.
When a college-educated kindergarten teacher walked into a Soviet Union military center during the fire and rage of World War II, it did not seem as strange then as it may sound now. It was late 1941, a year that ended with the death of her first brother during the siege of Leningrad. She was initially turned away by the local military commissariat who knew how hot it was at the front, but after losing two more siblings, in 1942 Roza Shanina finally succeeded in joining the 2,484 Soviet women serving their motherland as snipers.
“The key thing about the Soviet snipers was their impact on Soviet morale,” said David H. Lippman, author of World War II Plus 75: The Road to War. “They provided the ‘workers’ state’ with ‘workers’ heroes.’” But after Shanina made it through the Central Female Sniper Academy, military deployment plans nearly kept her away from the raging battle entirely — despite a widely held Soviet military belief that women soldiers made good snipers because of their greater physical flexibility and, true or not, their cunning, patience and ability to endure combat hardships better than their male counterparts.
Not one to be deferred or diverted after her initial attempts, Shanina began what would be a very short but significant march to greatness. It may feel strange to measure greatness by numbers of other humans killed, but the Soviets faced a fairly existential dilemma: Win or perish. It was April 1944, near Vitebsk, where Shanina killed her first Nazi soldier. Within a month, she had taken out about 17 more.
Under heavy artillery fire, her commanders decided to withdraw, but Shanina ignored orders and continued to support advancing infantry columns — and not just as a sniper. She captured German soldiers and was wounded herself. Her exploits earned her military commendations and wide renown among her countrymen, as well as in the West. She returned to battle soon thereafter, fighting in a battalion that lost 72 out of its 78 soldiers. A battle she survived.
Though not for long. Shanina was finally felled in January 1945, her chest torn open by an exploded artillery fragment. But before her death at the age of 20, she had managed 54 — some sources say 59 — confirmed kills in less than a year’s time.
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