Flight 273 News Today

Back now with more of that breaking news weve been following involving a diverted delta flight to bangor, maine. nbc newss pete williams is live in our washington bureau with details. pete, we want to update our viewers here. flight 273 was heading from paris to atlanta. a disruptive passenger who made, quote, suspicious comments, according to some senior officials. what else do we know here? >> well, the plane that landed here is a delta air bus a-330/300. its one of the workhorse of the delta ...

Now saying flight 273 enroute from paris to atlanta is diverting to bangor, maine, as a result of that disruptive passenger. that passenger will be taken into custody and questioned by authorities. we are still working the phones for the very latest information on this. once again, we have a flight, delta flight being diverted to maine right now because of a passenger that was disruptive. well find out hopefully soon how serious of a situation this is in the next couple of minutes. well keep you...

But the essence of the comment was something about the plane being in some danger of explosives. we dont know if he said theres a bomb on the plane. we dont know what. now, theres been a lot of checking going on into this passengers background. and nothing has lit up the charts on the passenger. theres nothing suspicious in the passengers past. one official tells me there is no reason other than the passengers comment to think that the plane is in any kind of danger. but, of course, because of t...

That has been diverted because of a disruptive passenger. delta has just released a statement that a passenger that they are calling a disruptive passenger is now in the custody of a federal air marshal on board the plane. this flight is diverting to maine with the disruptive passenger. delta now putting out the statement that the passenger is in custody. theres no further threat on that plane at the moment. it will be landing apparently shortly in maine. well keep an eye on that for you. a co...

Coast that arise during the flight, they do divert these flights. bangor is an airport that theyve often used. what were told by a number of federal officials and by the airline itself is that there was concern that arose during the flight because of the conduct of a passenger. now, there are federal air marshals on board this flight as indeed there are on most if not all flights to the u.s. from overseas. this person is now in custody. what were told by federal officials who are monitoring this...

Qatar diplomat who had a scare aboard another flight just a couple weeks ago. well continue to follow this delta flight heading to bangor, maine, due to land soon. right now we want to turn our attention to another story were following from the entertainment world. >> he was in great health. hes really an amazingly competitive guy. i feel a little guilty. ive been pretty rough on bret. ive been going after him. now im going to be so nice. im going to see him, i hope. im going to say, bret, you...

That report card is now not the grade that it originally had been. consequently, its going to get more expensive for them to borrow money. this is a bad spiralling effect. >> art, do you want to weigh in on that? >> no. i think thats exactly correct, you know. there was a famous old book about world war i called the guns of august. barbara tuchman, the author, said the world stumbled into world war i # because everybody believed somebody would be smart enough to stop it. thats what i think every...

Potentially explosives being on the flight. what were told also is that there is no reason to suspect that what the passenger says is correct. an initial check of the passengers background doesnt turn up anything specific. authorities have been looking at the passengers movements before the flight was boarded in paris. looking at all sorts -- everything that they can check. theres no reason to think that there is any danger to the plane. but because this comment was made, in these days of taking...

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23 miles away. it must be close. what strikes me here, pete, you sort of alluded to this, is that this passenger is already in custody on board the flight. it appears whenever this happens recently, at least, theres a federal air marshal aboard. how many flights are air marshals on board? it seems like theyre fully deployed. >> you know, the overseas flights is sort of a number one beat for federal air marshals because of the past problems with flights from overseas. so its quite common for fede...