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Hawaii: Fighter jets escort US plane to landing after Muslim tries to break into cockpit

May 20, 2017 8:19 am By Robert Spencer

Because of this incident, fighter jets escorted the plane into Honolulu. Uskanil, as you can see from the report below, was drinking — so therefore people will say that this incident had nothing to do with Islam or jihad. And that may be, although it may also be that he was drinking to steel himself for an act of jihad that he knew would be a good deed that would outweigh all the bad deeds he had committed, including the drinking itself. Also, many, many people drink on airplanes and before they board airplanes, sometimes to excess, and yet don’t end up trying to break into the cockpit. This bears watching, but given the present climate it is anybody’s guess as to whether the full story will ever be released to the public.

First look of suspect, 25-year-old Anil Uskanil being escorted off American Airlines flight #31 by the FBI. #honolulu pic.twitter.com/QqGbd2IwAY

— Shanell Wolslagel (@SJWolslagel) May 20, 2017

“Man Who Allegedly Tried to Break Into Cockpit of LA to Hawaii Flight Identified,” by Jason Kandel, NBC Los Angeles, May 19, 2017:

A 25-year-old man was arrested Friday after he allegedly tried to break into the cockpit of an American Airlines plane from Los Angeles to Hawaii, officials said.

Officials identified the passenger as Anil Uskanil of Turkish ethnicity. He was escorted off American Airlines Flight 31, after it landed safely at 11:35 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time, according to a statement from the airline.

The series of events leading up to the arrest began at 2:45 a.m. at LAX, airport police said.

Los Angeles International Airport Police Division responded to a radio call of a passenger going through a door from the Terminal 5 concourse that led out onto the airfield ramp, according to a statement from LAX.

Uskanil, who was a ticketed passenger on an American Airlines flight, had gone through TSA screening and was immediately spotted by a contractor and detained, LAX Public Information Officer Frederick Badlissi said.

Airport police investigated and determined Uskanil had been drinking but did not meet the criteria for public intoxication. He was arrested for misdemeanor trespassing, cited, given a pending court date and released to board his flight to Honolulu.

On the flight Uskanil had been loitering near the restroom, carrying a laptop, a government source told NBC News. Flight attendants asked him to return to his seat and he refused, the source said.

Uskanil then seemed to lunge toward the cockpit door, according to the source, and that’s when several passengers subdued him….

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  1. eagle Nest says

    May 20, 2017 at 8:33 am

    Airport police investigated and determined Uskanil had been drinking but did not meet the criteria for public intoxication. Only one thing left, he is mentally ill. Poor fellow. CAIR will be there for hm. The police will have to take a sensitivity course to better treat Muslims.Do they have a prayer room on the plane? The poor fellow will have to roll out his rug in the middle of the isle. Not a good thing for someone having to use the facilities.

    • p says

      May 21, 2017 at 10:28 pm

      should have told him to get a better hair cut, and allah is a fake moon god.

      Get him really going!

      • p says

        May 21, 2017 at 11:58 pm

        CAIR will insist on mandatory mosques on each plane, expecting liberals to support it, and they will.

  2. nicholas tesdorf says

    May 20, 2017 at 8:36 am

    Drunken passengers normally start fighting with other passengers. Jihadis normally try to break in to the cockpit to assist in Jihad.

    • rob says

      May 20, 2017 at 8:41 am

      Nicholas Tesdorf: hahahhahahah!!! Good one!

    • Bill W. says

      May 20, 2017 at 8:49 am

      He wanted to get into the cockpit to share a drink with the flight crew , he was going to explain Islamic law to them in a friendly way. He wanted to see if the plane could dive like a submarine, just another mental ill Islamic tourist making the world interesting for the rest of us Kaffers.

      • RationalVoice says

        May 20, 2017 at 9:39 am

        Yes and if they believed all that old guff everybody on the plane could live !!
        Oh the mercy and generosity of Allah to the Kaffers is boundless !!!

        Some would also say the stupidity of young mozzies is also boundless !!!

  3. Pigs be upon him says

    May 20, 2017 at 8:52 am

    Let’s have the Muslim stay over the travel ban Hawaii judge’s place. Let’s get him a job making hula hoops..

    • Bill W. says

      May 20, 2017 at 9:01 am

      If the judge has a daughter he is the perfect guy she can bring over for Sunday dinner.

  4. overman says

    May 20, 2017 at 9:36 am

    Yes, the ‘Drunk’ accusation seems to be the new Libtard Label or ‘Drunk and Mentally ill’.
    l know the hispanic guy in time square was not a muslim terrorist [although all the facts aren’t known yet], but the first thing they said was ‘Drunk Driver’ – turns out he wasn’t and might just have been smoking something instead.

    So, they’ve latched on to this Label now, in order to blind the public to anything that might suggest an act of terrorism.

    • gravenimage says

      May 20, 2017 at 11:28 pm

      Yeah–funny that most drunk Infidels are just kind of obnoxious–I haven’t heard of one trying to break into a plane’s cockpit.

      • p says

        May 22, 2017 at 12:02 am

        like calling them Asian

        • gravenimage says

          May 22, 2017 at 12:07 am

          True.

  5. Ed Lee says

    May 20, 2017 at 12:06 pm

    Both the incident at LAX and the attempt to breach the cockpit door were tests of our security systems and the vigilance of airline passengers. You can be sure he had an accomplice who took pictures and/or video. The contractor at LAX, the off-duty cop who subdued him and the FBI agents who escorted him off the aircraft are now individual targets of jihad.

  6. Marty says

    May 20, 2017 at 12:11 pm

    Pity there was no security person available to help this inbred muslim sociopath attain martyrdom.

  7. Donald R Laster Jr says

    May 20, 2017 at 2:04 pm

    Based upon the information in the story is looks like it was an classical attempted Jihad attack or as someone pointed out a dry-run. A little bit of drinking to hide the real intentions if something went wrong.

  8. northern lights says

    May 20, 2017 at 2:30 pm

    Muslims should not be permitted on planes.

    • underbed cat says

      May 20, 2017 at 3:26 pm

      Agree northern lights, nor on trains, subways, or as bus drivers…. why not ship them back from hence they came to play out these dangerous games, which might be a distraction of resources from bigger unseen issues or game plans.

  9. utis says

    May 20, 2017 at 3:59 pm

    Congratulations to the passengers. They restrained the scum. I hope they broke a few limbs holding him down.
    Although the law released him, they better put him in jail eventually. And make him pay the costs of bringing in the Air Force. As a taxpayer, I don’t want to see us pay one cent for this ottoman punk. If he’s not American, send him back to Turkey. Or to ISIS. I’d pay a tax for that.

    • gravenimage says

      May 21, 2017 at 12:07 am

      Yes–kudos to the passengers.

    • Carolyne says

      May 21, 2017 at 12:15 pm

      Heck–I’d buy his plane ticket.

  10. David says

    May 20, 2017 at 6:46 pm

    Muslim males like to mutilate women. So mutilate Muslim males.

    • Carolyne says

      May 21, 2017 at 12:18 pm

      I think it would be a good idea to do to them what their Sultans had done to the harem guards. Castrate them. Of course the Catholic Church used to do that to young boys who could sing well so they would forever remain sopranos. Castratis.

      I do not understand, and will never understand why our government allows these murderous barbarians to enter our country and live among us.

  11. Zub says

    May 20, 2017 at 10:22 pm

    The real story about this is being overlooked. Gaining access to the cockpit can happen and normal control of the aircraft subverted by the attacker. But what isn’t said is the military has standing orders to shoot the aircraft down should it be deemed a threat to other objects i.e buildings, government facilities, military bases., ect.

    The thing is the attacker only has to make the plane APPEAR to be threatening. Presto, the Jihadi just accomplished his objective by killing a whole plane load of passengers without having to crash it.
    I just feel bad for that fighter pilot who has to carry out those shoot down orders knowing full well he will kill a lot of innocent people.

    • Carolyne says

      May 21, 2017 at 12:25 pm

      I think cockpit doors are supposed to be locked while in flight and I think they were to be reinforced after 9/11. although I have flown on smaller planes where the cockpit is not only not locked but standing open and one can see the captain, co-pilot and all the instruments from one’s seat. I was on a flight from Charlotte NC to Knoxville TN recently where that was the case. The plane probably held about 100 people.

      After 9/11 someone who is supposed to have contacts with high government officials (I don’t knw if he really does) told me that in the case of the plane which hit the Pentagon, Air Force pilots had orders to shoot it down but refused.

  12. Christian Indeed says

    May 21, 2017 at 4:49 am

    So, Muslim goes through security bomb-free, finds access to outside.
    Picks up a ‘laptop’ (read, bomb) handed to him by fellow Jihadist. Fellow co-conspirator agrees laptop belonged to first (drunk?) Muslim who is then allowed to carry it on plane.
    Whatever could be the outcome?

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