Tune into CNN. Something going down.
 

Wonder what the deal is here...

I'll bet that it has something to do with the news.

Whats up?

CNN.com is showing:
BREAKING NEWS : PLANE SHOOTING
Shots were fired on board an American Airlines flight that had landed at Miami Intl. Airport.

If it ain't got its own CNN theme song, it ain't big news.

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A weapon was fired on an American Airlines plane as it was on the runway at Miami International Airport on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.

The weapon was apparently fired by a federal air marshal on board the plane, which was on a stopover during a flight from Medellin, Colombia, to Orlando, Florida, police said.

The Boeing 757 was due to take off for Orlando at 2:18 p.m. ET.

More soon.

From cnn.com:

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A weapon was fired on an American Airlines plane as it was on the runway at Miami International Airport on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.

The weapon was apparently fired by a federal air marshal on board the plane, which was on a stopover during a flight from Medellin, Colombia, to Orlando, Florida, police said.

The Boeing 757 was due to take off for Orlando at 2:18 p.m. ET.

More soon.

jinx tala

The world ends at noon. Full story on tonight's 6PM news.. :winkwink:

:wetkiss

some guy claimed to have a bomb and got shot is waht they are saying on local news here in miami.

what a maroon ;)

The shots werent fired on the plane. The air marshall shot him on the jet way.

Sounds painful.

I wish they would get the story straight. Did he have a bomb?

i bet it was just some asshole...who said something as a joke

he deserves to be banned from flying..not shot

american airlines...where they shoot you for talking out your ass..lol

Allah Ackbar!

:1orglaugh

http://www.abacusrecordings.com/images/bands/maroon.jpg

better than the plane getting blown to hell

Gfy ... where the ignorant comment at will.

What part of Federal Air Marshal implies to you that they're employed my American Airlines?

Your assumptions and theories are what's killing me.

If someone close to me was on that plane I would prefer they shot a potential bomber rather than give him the benefit of the doubt and later have dozens or hundreds of people die.

And... it doesn't take a genius to figure out that nowadays you don't joke around about shit like that on an airliner.

Ever.

so sorry captain perfecto
carry on

hey earlier i thought they guy was on the plane, in that case i would have suggested shooting him
now it turnsout he was not...ill wait until i know all the details

Much better plan. :D

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

So a guy shot someone on an airplane... What's the big deal?

Just read another news clip... looks as though the guy was only wounded, not killed.

Holy shit..

So far it says something about the dude claiming he had a bomb, the Federal Agent told him to stop, he didn't, Agent shot him.

He should have killed him. One less jackass doesn't bother me any. I love wild and crazy news, makes for an entertaining day.

MIAMI - A passenger who claimed to have a bomb in a carry-on bag was shot on a jetway after an American Airlines plane arrived at Miami International Airport from Colombia, officials said.


Homeland Security Department spokesman Brian Doyle said after the plane had parked at the gate, a passenger indicated there was a bomb in the bag. The passenger was confronted by air marshals but ran off the plane, Doyle said.

A team of air marshals pursued and ordered the passenger to get on the ground. The passenger complied, then was shot when apparently reaching into a bag, Doyle said.

The plane had just arrived from Colombia and was headed on to Orlando.

Airport and Miami-Dade County police officials said they had no immediate comment. American Airlines officials confirmed the shooting was on a jetway.

Martin Gonzalez, spokesman for Colombia's civil aviation agency, said he had no information regarding the incident. "The flight left normally with no problems," he told The Associated Press in Bogota.

He said he did not have a list of passengers who were aboard the plane.

Dude is DEAD!

If that's the way it went down I have no problem with it. Bravo to the air marshals.

Is the idiot dead or isn't he? A different news article says he was "wounded" only.

should be shot for saying that

Ah, I'm hearing now that the guy is dead.

Well, that's the way the cookie crumbles when you play the "let's fuck with the airlines" game.

You fuck around on an airplane, you die.

You rush an exit or the cockpit while in flight, you die.

I'm ok with those rules.

Just another story with sole purpose to scare the general public and put then in a state of confusion and panic!

moving on folks :)

:thumbsup

rut roh...
now they're saying something about him being bipolar and not taking his meds.

Sounds like a great campaign to get kids to take their medicine.

"Now Billy, you need to take your pills or you'll get shot by an Air Marshall!"

So they use real bullets on these planes? Is this safe? I heard somewhere... a long, long time ago that if you shot a bullet on a plane and it peirced the shell the air pressure would drop and everyone would get sucked out...
Out of where, I'm not sure, proberbly not our of the bullet hole.. :Oh crap

Quite the opposite: they want us to feel good that the marshalls are on top of it.

not true. They busted that myth on mythbusters :thumbsup

welp the moral of this is that if you say you have a bomb on a plane you will die

CNN is such a hype machine... instead of one screen they have multiple screens of the same drama for you to view at once...

Wolf Blitzer sure knows how to make any news story seem like the end of the world and make you afraid to leave your house, i guess that's why he gets paid the big bucks...

And what does "Breaking News" mean? didnt it already break? so it should be "Broken News" or how about just "News".... I am looking at the screen now and it says "Breaking News" in two different graphics on the screen, talk about hype! Where's my remote control...

Man killed after bomb claim at airport

Official: Air marshals fired after he approached them aggressively

Wednesday, December 7, 2005; Posted: 5:26 p.m. EST (22:26 GMT)

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A 44-year-old U.S. citizen who claimed to have a bomb was shot and killed when air marshals opened fire on a boarding bridge at the Miami airport, several sources told CNN.

American Airlines Flight 924 was in Miami on a stopover during a flight from Medellin, Colombia, to Orlando, Florida, when the man, identified as Rigoberto Alpizar, said there was a bomb in his carry-on luggage, a Department of Homeland Security official said.

Alpizar was confronted by a team of federal air marshals, who followed him down the boarding bridge and ordered him to get on the ground, the official said. ( Watch the aftermath of the shooting -- 1:36)

When Alpizar appeared to reach into his baggage, he was shot and wounded, the official said, adding that the marshals' actions were consistent with their training. Officials said later that the man died of his injuries.

Upon investigation, there was no evidence that Alpizar had a bomb, an official said.

Alpizar was traveling with a woman and had arrived in Miami on a plane from Ecuador, federal officials said. He and the woman began arguing before getting off the plane in Miami, two officials said.

After he got off the plane in Miami and went through customs, he got on the Orlando-bound plane and said he had a bomb, Air Marshal Service spokesman Dave Adams said.

Air marshals asked him to get off the plane, which he did, but when they asked him to put his bag down, he refused, Adams said. Alpizar then approached the marshals in an aggressive manner, at which point two or three shots were fired, he said.

This is the first time an air marshal has fired a weapon on or near an airplane, a federal official said.

Footage from the scene showed armed SWAT team members carrying rifles outside the aircraft, along with more than a dozen police vehicles. Paramedics were standing on the stairway to the aircraft.

The Boeing 757, which can hold about 180 passengers, was due to take off for Orlando at 2:18 p.m. ET. It had arrived in Miami at 12:16 p.m. ET, according to the airline's Web site. No other flights at Miami International were disrupted Wednesday, an airport official said.

Don't fuck with the man with the gun......

If you fear for your life, its legal to shoot people in Florida under the new state law Gov. Jeb Bush signed this year.

:thumbsup

He 'said he had a bomb' .... yeah, right, you bunch of gun toting cowards.

What do you expect when you shout "I have a bomb" on a US airport?

almost fiddy