And it wasn't until a passenger - a watchful passenger, noticed - that the attack was thwarted.
Meanwhile, an engineer who is concerned with getting every passenger a really good network signal can see if the weak signals are propagating through the airplane with enough power to provide a good usability experience.
For example, a passenger with a BA ticket but travelling on an American Airlines flight into the EU would not be entitled to the assistance, whereas a passenger on a BA flight with an American Airlines ticket travelling into the EU would.
"While we agree that a passenger wielding a small knife or swinging a golf club or hockey stick poses less of a threat to the pilot locked in the cockpit, these are real threats to passengers and flight attendants in the passenger cabin, " the union said in a statement.
One particularly busy Friday evening at San Francisco airport as a passenger service agent, I began working a flight with a passenger line that snaked back 100-plus people for a shuttle flight to San Diego.
But now that SUV sales are two years into a freefall, GM again has realized that it might be nice to have passenger cars, and a passenger car brand that has a chance of attracting buyers of imports.
When a passenger buys a seat on a plane, what rights do they have?
Charles Douglas-Hamilton flew to the world's highest peak as a passenger in a modern Jetstream 41 Turboprop.
The US was lucky, with not a single passenger killed on a scheduled passenger flight in 2011.
According to state police, Goodson was a passenger in a vehicle driven by 31-year-old Garant Evans of Roselle.
She was a passenger in a Rover car which hit the crash barrier at about midnight on Sunday.
The 85-year-old was a passenger in a Renault Kangoo when it was hit by a freight train at Yarnton on Wednesday.
Mr Buback and his two aides were shot dead by a passenger on a motorcycle as their car was waiting at traffic lights.
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Debbi Smedley, a passenger on a recent Triumph cruise, said the ship had trouble on Jan. 28 as it was preparing to leave Galveston.
Thomas Pizzey, 85, from Banbury, was a passenger in a Renault Kangoo when it was hit by a freight train at Yarnton on Wednesday.
The injured man was a passenger in a Lexus which collided with an Isuzu recovery vehicle in The Street, Compton, at about 10:10 GMT.
Stefan Sakatiuk, 34, from Fauldhouse, West Lothian, was a passenger in a Vauxhall Signum which left the B7015 Sheephousehill Road and hit a tree.
There is a view that when a passenger buys a ticket they are effectively signing a contract not to become disorderly on the flight.
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The court was told that Mrs McCracken, a retired civil servant from Stoke Gifford, was a passenger on a First Bus service on 16 May.
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Carriers warn that such a tactic could cause massive delays if airlines are forced to remove bags every time a passenger misses a connection or is bumped from an overbooked flight.
Then, seemingly tired, she squints at the afternoon sun, hesitating before cracking her jaws in the yawning attitude of a passenger in a plane clearing her ears of accumulated air pressure.
In a written statement issued Thursday, Barry Steinhardt of the ACLU said the technology can pick up graphic body images and even medical details like whether a passenger has a colostomy bag.
While no physical injuries have been reported, if a passenger contracted a significant disease, such as hepatitis, from unsanitary conditions on the ship, maritime trial attorney John H. (Jack) Hickey believes physical injury could be argued.
And in July, Falklands veteran Simon Weston withdrew from elections for the post in south Wales after doubts were raised about him being convicted and fined for being a passenger in a stolen car when he was 14.
Besides the two Carnival vessels that have come to transfer supplies -- and, in one case, take on a passenger with a pre-existing medical condition, said Gulliksen -- the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Vigorous is on-site to aid the stranded ship.
The census revealed that in 2011, the majority of 16 to 74-year-olds drove a car or van to work - 58% or 15 million - while a further 5%, or 1.4 million, travelled to work as a passenger in a car or van.
On the Lisburn Road, a man ordered a woman passenger from a car.
For example, a passenger flying into the UK on a American Airlines flight, but who actually booked with BA and has a BA flight number will get the same rights as a BA passenger.
"Today, because of heightened security awareness and the reinforced cockpit door, air rage is likely to involve a confrontation between a disruptive passenger and a member of the flight crew or another traveler, " he said.
"In order to qualify for assistance a passenger must be travelling in his or her own wheelchair...a passenger without their own wheelchair will be directed to the wheelchair provider at the airport, " the Ryanair spokeswoman said.
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