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What a strange day of travel I had on Friday. \u00a0For those of you who follow my posts, you’ll remember that I wasn’t able to use Star Awards Upgrades for this trip because United had temporarily suspended <\/span><\/a><\/span>their participation in the program. \u00a0So I boarded my first flight in London, in coach, but before take-off was able to move to an empty row – made the flight totally bearable. \u00a0 About 2 hours into the flight that\u00a0announcement\u00a0you dread came over the intercom – is there anyone on board with medical experience? If so, please ring your call button. \u00a0When no one heard any call button dings, we all new it was not good news – we would likely have to stop. \u00a0And that we did. \u00a0That layover made a 7 hour flight into an 9.5 hour flight and created a few missed connections!<\/p>\n

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After flying through customs and security thanks to TSA’s Trusted\u00a0Traveler Program, I headed over to US Airways. \u00a0The flight to Tampa started like any other. \u00a0But before the first class flight attendant could serve drinks to anyone beyond row 2, a man from coach darted up to the front and began talking to her. \u00a0Everyone could tell something was going on, but it was hard to hear. \u00a0 Next, she got on her phone and called the flight attendants in the back – this is when those of us in the first few rows could start to hear what was going on – she was a loud talker. \u00a0 There was a lot of action for the next 20 or 30 minutes with people going from the front to the back and from the back to the front of the plane.<\/p>\n

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From what we were able to over-hear, it seems that two men were sitting in close\u00a0quarters and one bumped into the other,\u00a0accidentally. He got up to go to the bathroom and when he returned, the man that he bumped would not allow him to sit down. \u00a0There was a verbal altercation and apparently enough was said to get a uniformed enlisted man engaged, another man – whom everyone suspected was an air marshal (because he went into the cockpit while first class was boarding the flight) involved in keeping the situation under control.
\nWhen we landed, the pilot annoucned that we weren’t at the gate – another plane, he said, was at our gate. But, those of us sitting on the front left of the plane could see there were no airplanes at any gates near us – and he asked everyone to stay seated. \u00a0 \u00a0We then noticed several police cars with lights flashing speeding towards all the empty gates. \u00a0When they parked, about 6 uniformed officers climbed the steps to the jet-bridge and then our plane began to pull in. When we stopped, the pilot asked everyone to remain seated while the police boarded the flight.<\/p>\n

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We were soon joined by at least 4 armed officers and it appeared that two may have been standing in the jet-bridge. \u00a0They all headed towards the back of the plane. \u00a0 After a few minutes, the man everyone suspected was the air marshal disembarked first, then, 1 officer escorted the man who wasn’t allowed to sit down (the victim) off the plane, then the uniformed enlisted man disembarked and on his way out said to someone in first class – if you’re in the military, you have to help out. \u00a0Then, another officer came to the front and we could all hear him say “he’s in cuffs in the back, everyone can get off.”<\/p>\n

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So that was it, we all got off the plane and as we got off saw officers talking to the enlisted man, the “victim” and the “air marshal” all in different areas of the jet bridge. \u00a0 No one really knows exactly what happened but it sure was an eventful day of \u00a0travel and left a lot to the imagination!<\/p>\n

I know the picture is blurry, but the officers were moving fast<\/p>\n

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