In a horrific hour of déjÀ vu, the world thought Sunday it once again was witnessing a terror threat aboard a Northwest flight bound from Amsterdam to Detroit Metro Airport.Everything was the same: airline, flight number, departure airport, arrival airport."Everyone's sensitive today because of what happened on Christmas Day," said Wayne County Airport Authority Chief Executive Officer Lester Robinson.Sunday's incident unfolded quite differently -- with this detainee cleared because he was considered to be legitimately ill and in need of the bathroom -- but showed how serious travel fears and security issues have become in just a few days.Abdulmutallab has been transferred from the University of Michigan Trauma Burn Center, where he was being treated for injuries from his failed detonation, to a federal prison in Milan, his attorney, Miriam Siefer, said Sunday.A federal hearing is expected today on a warrant request to get his DNA.Jane Jeronimus knew something was wrong Sunday when flight attendants couldn't get a passenger to leave the bathroom after announcing that everyone needed to return to their seats an hour before Northwest Flight 253 was set to land at Detroit Metro Airport.Jeronimus, of Ann Arbor, who was traveling from Amsterdam with her 13-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter, said when the man continued to stay in the bathroom, it became evident that airline crew members were communicating with each other and the pilot."They told us we couldn't get out of our seats and that's when all the trouble started. The guy in 44B got up and they repeatedly knocked on the door and he wouldn't come out," she said. "We travel a lot and this is the first time we've seen anything like this.
In a horrific hour of déjÀ vu, the world thought Sunday it once again was witnessing a terror threat aboard a Northwest flight bound from Amsterdam to Detroit Metro Airport.Everything was the same: airline, flight number, departure airport, arrival airport."Everyone's sensitive today because of what happened on Christmas Day," said Wayne County Airport Authority Chief Executive Officer Lester Robinson.Sunday's incident unfolded quite differently -- with this detainee cleared because he was considered to be legitimately ill and in need of the bathroom -- but showed how serious travel fears and security issues have become in just a few days.Abdulmutallab has been transferred from the University of Michigan Trauma Burn Center, where he was being treated for injuries from his failed detonation, to a federal prison in Milan, his attorney, Miriam Siefer, said Sunday.A federal hearing is expected today on a warrant request to get his DNA.Jane Jeronimus knew something was wrong Sunday when flight attendants couldn't get a passenger to leave the bathroom after announcing that everyone needed to return to their seats an hour before Northwest Flight 253 was set to land at Detroit Metro Airport.Jeronimus, of Ann Arbor, who was traveling from Amsterdam with her 13-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter, said when the man continued to stay in the bathroom, it became evident that airline crew members were communicating with each other and the pilot."They told us we couldn't get out of our seats and that's when all the trouble started. The guy in 44B got up and they repeatedly knocked on the door and he wouldn't come out," she said. "We travel a lot and this is the first time we've seen anything like this.
