Thread: Illegal Alien almost takes down plane!- Media coverup?

The airline flight from Chicago that the illegal alien tried to open the door on, -

How did he get on that plane if hes illegal?


Folks, this is a HUGE STORY about why the press should be asking the hard questions, and they are not!

He almost took down an AIRLINE PEOPLE!

Lets NOT LET THE ADMINISTRATION OFF ON THIS ONE!!!

Was the person just whacko, or was it a premeditated attempt at taking a plane down?

is there a link to an article anywhere about this? If so please post it.

Can you post a link to any official verification that he was an illegal? If so, what country was he from? I am curious and would use this in correspondance with my Senators.

Originally Posted by Newmexican

Can you post a link to any official verification that he was an illegal? If so, what country was he from? I am curious and would use this in correspondance with my Senators.

There was a post on this board Saturday about the situation, but I can't locate it now.
I'd rather not say the person's last name for fear of saying something offensive.

Jose Manuel Pelayo-Ortega


Quick action subdues man who tried to open jetliner door in air

Saturday, April 22, 2006


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(04-22) 14:27 PDT DENVER, (AP) --


Passengers aboard a United Airlines flight had some help when they had to take matters into their own hands to prevent Jose Manuel Pelayo-Ortega from bringing their plane down.


Three Secret Service agents headed west to join President Bush's entourage joined with passengers to subdue Pelayo-Ortega when he tried to open one of the doors on the Airbus A-320.


"Had he opened the door, we'd all be dead," passenger Donna Bell of Visalia, Calif., told the Sacramento Bee after the plane was searched and allowed to continue westward.


Secret Service spokesman Eric Zahensaid three agents between assignments help detain Pelayo-Ortega, who was taken off the plane after it made an emergency landing in Denver.


"That saved us," Ian Grossman of Chicago told the Bee. "You don't know what will happen if a guy like that is loose in the cabin."


The Bee reported that passenger Joe Pena, a senior airman at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., described the incident as like a bar fight. "I heard a bunch of commotion, and I heard somebody yell 'What are you doing' and 'Get down,' then I saw the guy put into a chokehold, put on his back and pinned down so he couldn't move," Pena said in Sacramento, after hugging his tearful wife, Candy.


While Pelayo-Ortega was being detained, two F-16 fighter jets from Buckley Air Force Base east of Denver scrambled to intercept the plane, which carried 138 passengers and six crew. Had the plane "been judged as a threat by the highest levels of our government, they could make the decision to have the plane shot down," said Lt. Commander Sean Kelly, a spokesman for NORAD, a U.S.-Canadian military command based outside Colorado Springs that monitors missiles, aircraft and space objects and warns of threats.


The policy was put in place after Sept. 11, 2001. President Bush would ultimately make the decision.


Authorities said Pelayo-Ortega — whose age and hometown were not immediately released — tried to open an door on the Airbus A-320 en route from Chicago to Sacramento, and then claimed to have a bomb forcing the emergency landing in Denver.


A "shoot-don't shoot" scenario didn't develop because the plane was following all FAA instructions. One of the last resorts would have included the fighter pilots either talking to or attempting to talk to the pilot of the airliner, which didn't happen Friday, Kelly said


The fighter jets out of Buckley Air Force Base east of Denver "followed to make sure nothing untoward was going to happen," Kelly said.


Since Sept. 11, fighters have been scrambled or if already airborne diverted 2,300 times, said Kelly. The Transportation Security Administration said it did not have numbers on how many flights have been diverted.

Savage says he 's an illlegal alien...


Pelayo-Ortega was in a Denver jail awaiting federal charges. FBI spokeswoman Monique Kelso said he will be charged on Monday. She did not return a call Saturday seeking details.
Kelso said authorities searched the aircraft for explosives and re-screened luggage as well as the passengers before they were allowed to re-board the plane, which left for its original destination at about 7:30 p.m.

WITH ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION A HOT TOPIC, SHOULDNT THE PRESS BE ALL OVER THIS STORY?

We need to HIT THE PRESS AND SENATORS WITH THIS.

DUGH? You'd think wouldn't you? But no.......IRKS ME TO NO END!!!!!

Will they even care??? It's as if it's some secret conspiracy to keep these illegals here in the country.

Who is this Savage guy who said "he's an illegal alien". Nowhere else in the article does it mention him being illegal, which is now a standard practice of the news media.