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FBI outlines reasons why six Southwest Airlines passengers were arrested and charged in Amarillo

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FBI special agent T. Scott Hendricks has filed an affidavit explaining why Southwest Airlines diverted a San Diego-Chicago flight to Amarillo late Monday and booted six passengers off the flight. (www.dallasnews.com) More...

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FrankHarvey
Frank Harvey 1
Are Khalid Yohana, 19; Essa Solaqa, 20; ; Jonathan Khalid Petras, 20; and Saiman Hermez, 19 old enough to purchase alcohol in the US, even if they are not behaving obnoxiously ?
yr2012
matt jensen 2
Need to be 21 in States, 18-19 is legal in Canada
FrankHarvey
Frank Harvey 1
Thanks Matt. I didn't know if it was 18 in some States and 21 in others. As this was an internal US flight I assume that US law would have penalised the FA if she had served them.
preacher1
preacher1 1
18 is legal in a good part of US if not all. You can't vote til 21 but you can drink.
chris13
Chris Bryant 1
Drinking age is 21 in all 50 states. Feds decided to withhold highway $$$ if the states didn't raise the age.
paultrubits
paul trubits 1
Not anymore. Was 18 in NY when I grew up. It has been 21 for a long time now. Don't get fooled by the fake story about Obama lowering the drinking age to 18.

preacher1
preacher1 1
Some has probably changed over the years. It was done to 18 years ago in AR/and Ok maybe some others, and still is.
DerekCooks
Derek Thomas 1
It's 21 nationwide, and The Supremes ruled it so. I was under 21 once...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_Act_of_1984
preacher1
preacher1 1
Kinda like marijuana, a federal law being ignored. This link says that it is still state law that rules, and as I said, down here it is 18.
chris13
Chris Bryant 1
Maybe for near-beer (3.2% max ABV), but not for regular stuff.
mhlansdell00
Mark Lansdell 1
Good catch !
DerekCooks
Derek Thomas 4
I'm guessing they were well served, or self-served, before they even got on board. Just a guess...
bovineone
Jeff Lawson 1
Here is the continuing flight after they diverted to Amarillo, unloaded the six passengers, and continued to Chicago:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/SWA1522/history/20150901/0433Z/KAMA/KMDW
mhlansdell00
Mark Lansdell 2
News FlashA flight left Amarillo
mhlansdell00
Mark Lansdell 2
News Flash! " SWA flight leaves Amarillo without incident arrives safely in Chicago."
bovineone
Jeff Lawson 1
Yes, and it was nearly 3 hours later than they were originally expecting to arrive in Chicago.
mhlansdell00
Mark Lansdell 1
From the article you'll agree the pax were disruptive enough to divert ? Flight time, flight plan filing time, taxi time, new appointment times, arrest processing time, 3 hours is probably pretty good.
reubendunn
Reuben Dunn 1
There was comment about Southerners being rough and unruly as a matter of course in one of the UK newspapers which I posted a disagreement to. It didn't mention at that time that these were soccer players - that probably explains their behaviour.
preacher1
preacher1 2
They were from SOUTHERN California. LOL

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