DC Flights Come to Screeching Halt After Woman Claims to Receive a Message from God
- Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:05pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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CINCINNATI (AP) — The grounding of flights Sunday at Reagan National Airport was prompted by a woman who told an Ohio airport worker that there was a bomb aboard an airplane – a warning she later said she had received in a message from God, the director of Dayton’s airport said Monday.
No explosives were found aboard the jet that flew from Dayton International Airport to Reagan, but the threat shut down the airport near Washington for about 20 minutes, the FBI said.
The woman approached a US Airways ticket agent in Dayton about midday Sunday, said Terrence Slaybaugh, director of the Dayton International Airport.
“She communicated to the agent that there was a bomb on board and that people were in danger and they needed to turn the plane around – that people were going to be killed,” Slaybaugh told The Associated Press on Monday.
The 54-year-old woman from Shelbyville, Ky., was immediately taken into custody, he said.
She later told police she had received the message about the bomb from God, Slaybaugh said. That explanation was first reported by the Dayton Daily News on Monday.
The woman, whose name was not released, remained at a mental health facility Monday, FBI officials said. She has a history of mental health problems, Slaybaugh said.
No criminal charges have been filed, FBI Special Agent Michael Brooks said Monday. He said he could not comment further.
The woman’s car was searched, but nothing unusual was found in it, Slaybaugh said. He was not sure whether she specifically gave the number of US Airways Flight 2596 and didn’t know her reaction when she was told that the plane had already departed.
The flight landed around 1 p.m. at the airport just outside Washington, its original destination, and authorities interviewed the 44 passengers, the FBI said.
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Information from: Dayton Daily News, http://www.daytondailynews.com
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moonlight on the bay
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 2:50amThis just in from God: “Look, don’t I have ENOUGH to worry about, wondering when Pat Robertson’s gonna spout off in response to the next natural disaster and drag MY name into it? (Me and that boy are gonna have a LONG talk when he gets up here. I‘m not sayin’ he‘s gettin’ IN just yet, either). Do I REALLY need any more people blaming ME for the crimes they’ve committed or the illusions they have? And you people who think you see my face in your grilled cheese sandwich, potato chip, Seven Layer Dip, etcetera . . . I’d like to think I could appear to you in a more creative, dramatic way than that! I mean, did I appear to Moses on the surface of a grape??? For cryin’ out loud, give me a little more credit than that, will ya?? A GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH?? REALLY??”
Report Post »holy ghostbuster
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:08amWhat might have happened if she thought that God had told her to bring a bomb aboard an airplane. When people start thinking rationally about all religion, we will have less problems in this world.
Report Post »holy ghostbuster
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:02amI wonder what that lady thinks of her God now that he was proven wrong by evidence that there was no bomb on the flight. Of course I am counting on her to make a leap from irrational to rational thought.
Report Post »Nick Pable with Buckshot
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 7:48amand Kickagrandma hasn’t posted on here since Sunday. Just saying.
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:44amShe could have been having a premonition of the Russian plane that went down today. It did have 44 passengers that were killed and this plane had 44 passengers, so who knows. I figure she probably just has a mental disorder, but made me think.
Report Post »lijjo
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 11:00pmlights…camera…action!
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 10:23pmReal cute!!! Now you give the TSA Permission to probe everyones medical records and religious affiliations(except Muslims) before flying!
Report Post »SMarino
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 10:07pmStrange…
Report Post »chips1
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:14pmIf TSA had read their Bibles, they would have known even God won’t fly US AIRWAYS.
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:05pmNuts in all corners, all religions, all political parties…and on some air flights.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:20pmNext stop, TSA czar in the BO admin.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 8:39pmShe was from Kentucky..Figures! Growing up in Ohio, we made fun of the people from Kentucky and we called them “BRIARS!” We had many briar jokes..Why did they build the Cincinnatti bridge from Kentucky to Ohio??? So the Briars can swim across in the shade.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 8:42pmI hate the bottom level of that bridge … can’t imagine swimming under both levels.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 8:30pmAnother tar brush gets dipped and readied!
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 8:29pmI’ll donate to her tin foil hat fund.
Report Post »jessieH
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 8:15pmDo-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do. That’s my impression of the outer limits. Didn’t she get groped, before she got on board? My grandma did. So did my two year old. She must have been a musim, not to get searched.
Report Post »Bushie
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 8:01pmPut her on the “do not fly” list.
Report Post »donedunn
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:59pmYou can laugh and snicker. What a simpleton she thinks God talks to her! But she did what she was supposed to do. She told someone that she honestly believed those people were in danger. I’m sorry the people were inconvenienced, but I am glad she spoke up. That takes courage when you know that you are going to be ridiculed.
Report Post »Veritas
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 8:14pmI agree to a certain extent. I won’t say anymore about it than that.
Report Post »ICEDRAGONNITE
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 8:18pmAmen
Report Post »Larry_Waters
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:40pmAlert Big Sis Janet Napoalotano another citizen thwarted another terrorist threat. Her quick actions prevented the planting of the bomb…. even if she reported it too late.
Where do I donate to her legal fund?
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:29pmMaybe it was another flight at another airport and god dialed a wrong number.
Report Post »slvrserfr
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:18pmSomeone has been watching too much, “Final Destination.“ One thing I do find rather unsettling is that the end of the movie ”Fight Club” (made in 1999) shows a foreshadowing of what happened on 9/11 when the movie ends with twin towers being collapsing before the credits roll.
Report Post »Grandmadar
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:25pmAccording to the Broadcasts of Lindsey Williams (a pastor) who speaks of the “Elite”…, mentions that “the Elite” will always tell what they are doing ahead of time i.e. in movies, etc. I see that this is an example of what he was sharing in those broadcasts. You can see his broadcasts on You Tube.
Report Post »(The 1999 movie showing the towers going down is an example)
boxy
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:11pmStupid
Report Post »slvrserfr
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:15pmSomeone has been watching too much “Final Destination”.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:14pmBut does she have the science to back it up?
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:09pmYou never know, just maybe that 20min delay saved everyone’s life
Report Post »boxy
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:10pmOh boy. This will be used to attack Christians no doubt.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:09pmthanks to obama care…………………..many more nuts will be wandering the streets instead of getting care.
we really should look to make sure encinom and ariikeous are getting their daily doses of medication
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:14pm@PSYCHOSIS, it wouldn’t matter. They would be non-compliant with their Haldol anyway.
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:16pmEncinotroll is the poster child for Labotomy Surgery. I am still waiting for the “insider info from him that Weiner was set up. I think the insider he was talking about is the idiot in the next cell wearing a tin foil hat.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:53pmTSA reply? Probably brain scans.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:57pmWe are on a mission from God.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:02pmShe was at walmart and saw the “SEE something SAY something” sign and did, thinking she was still in walmart.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:03pmI think God would have told her to duck!
Report Post »jzs
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:39pmActually Psychosis, assuming you’re not a troll, the Republicans are the ones trying to cut the kind of social services that could help someone like this, not the Democrats. I only mention the possibility of you being a troll because you have this exactly backwards, which make me think you are being ironical.
But to give the Republicans their due, they have to cut social services in order to support their tax cuts for the rich.
Report Post »Now this is Art
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 10:07pmya sure it wasnt allah? muslims are the root of evil, they must be extinguished….just like the followers of Hilter. mohommed was a murderer, hate monger and a pedophile. who the H3LL follows such an EVIL person….really? WHO? islam will be the death of the freedoms that we take for granted.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 12:11amNow this is Art, nice spin on a thread about a crazy Christian. Do you have a anything to say about the crazy Christian, or do you believe that crazy Christians somehow prove that Islam is also crazy? Or do you believe that crazy Christians and crazy Islamists are two totally separate things? Do you really think that crazy Christians cause Islamists to be crazy? That seems be your claim. If so, be gone. Crazy Christians do NOT create crazy Islamists, and you should be ashamed for making that claim. Would you please grow up and stop blaming crazy Christians for all the problems in the world? You are an athiest aren’t you? Please stop proclaiming your hatred of the Christian God on this website. May you rot in Heck.
Report Post »WeDontNeedNoStinkingBadges
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:05am“US DC Flights Come to Screeching Halt After Woman Claims to Receive a Message from God”
Well, at least, there IS hope for America when even the corrupt & godless government of this nation pays heed to a POSSIBLE message from God. Fear not, TheBlazers, there is hope yet!
Report Post »FreedomWorks1776
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 9:08amWell just like Obamanation saved us from the brink, she could have saved all thoughs lives……………We’ll never really know will we
Report Post »Sound The Trumpet In Zion
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:52amPerhaps the police should check into the possibility of obama and/some of his wacko cronies are involved and got this woman to claim that so that they could point fingers and start saying: “see, that’s the way the Christians are. They are lunatics.” I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the case.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:49am@Psychosis For those who might get their facts and history from solid sources like this one…it was Reagan who closed the public mental hospitals across the country, releasing 10s of thousands of mentally ill individuals into society. Historically it is republicans who cut funding for mental health and limit access to services. But hey don’t let facts get in the way of bashing Obama. I think the question here is the “message from god” gives us a hint regarding the particular psychosis this woman is suffering from.
Report Post »tittiger
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 12:21pmSince when in a Christian nation is the belief that God communicates with you all this is needed to lock someone up in a mental ward? It won’t be long before it is a crime.
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