Incident on Air Tran 297

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****A bizarre incident, descritpion of which Snopes.com considers to be of "mixed" accuracy, occurred in which there was clearly a delay occasioned by a return to the gate of a plane ready to take and attributed in all accounts to at least one passenger refusing to cooperate with the flight attendants. Several accounts make it seem like a "dry run" for a terrorist incident by eleven identifiably-Muslim passengers distributed throughout the plane, acting in concert. The airline and the Transportation Safety Administration claim that the incident was due to one or two passengers and that all eleven people were allowed to go on the plane. According to accounts, the entire flight crew and about a dozen other passengers deplaned rather than continue with the eleven passengers. Now, the TSA is a thoroughly-imbued politically correct organization and the airline is likely concerned about law suits from Muslim passengers so that version clearly has some reason to be questioned. For the airline to claim that all the passengers were in ordinary western dress and not in "Muslim attire" makes it unlikely since how could the other passengers identify them as Muslims. If it was because they were jabbering in Arabic, all of them, and that was how they were identified as Muslims, then the substance of the main accusation seems to be verified.****