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> "Coffee, Tea or Flames" <wouldyoulike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Angry flight attendant charged with setting fire on plane
>>
>> FARGO, North Dakota (AP) -- A flight attendant angry about his work
>> route smuggled a lighter aboard an airplane and set a fire in a
>> bathroom, forcing an emergency landing, authorities said Thursday.
>>
>> The Compass Airlines flight carrying 72 passengers and four crew
>> members landed safely in Fargo on May 7 after smoke filled the back.
>> No injuries were re****ted. The plane was flying from Minneapolis to
>> Regina, Saskatchewan, authorities said.
>>
>> Eder Rojas, 19, appeared in court Thursday, following his arrest a
day
>> earlier in Minneapolis, and was ordered held without bail,
prosecutors
>> said. The charge of setting fire aboard a civil aircraft carries a
>> maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
>>
>> His public defender did not return a phone call seeking comment.
>> Assistant U.S. Attorney Lynn Jordheim, who is prosecuting the case in
>> Fargo, would not comment.
>>
>> Court do***ents said Rojas, of the Twin Cities suburb of Woodbury,
>> told authorities he was upset at the airline for making him work the
>> route. He is accused of taking a lighter with him through the
security
>> checkpoint, authorities said.
>>
>> "Rojas further stated that he was preparing his cart to serve the
>> passengers, he set the cart up, went back to the lavatory and reached
>> in with his right hand and lit the paper towels with the lighter,"
>> court do***ents said.
>>
>> Pilot Steve Peterka told authorities that an indicator light came on
>> about 35 minutes into the flight, showing smoke in the rear bathroom.
>>
>> Peterka called Rojas, who was assigned passengers in the back of the
>> plane, and asked him to check the bathroom, do***ents said. Rojas,
>> another flight attendant and a passenger were credited with quickly
>> putting out the flames with fire extinguishers, authorities said.
>>
>> Investigators later found a lighter in one of the overhead bins.
Rojas
>> confessed after authorities interviewed him, the complaint said.
>>
>> Compass is a subsidiary of Northwest Airlines, based in Eagan, Minn.
>> Rojas has been fired, said Northwest spokesman Rob Laughlin.
Northwest
>> did not say how long Rojas worked for the airline.
>>
>> FBI agent Ralph Boelter said Compass Airlines officials showed
>> "extraordinary cooperation" in the investigation.
>>
>> http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/15/plane.fire.charges.ap/index.html
>
> This is so immature. It's like the angry teenager that stuffs paper
> towels into a public toilet, to make the water overflow. ;(
>
Oh yeah, it's exactly like that.
Bertie
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