Detroit, December 28: The FBI has cleared Northwest Airlines Flight 253 to return to the air after a second incident within 48 hours was deemed to be not serious.
Security officials at Detroit Metropolitan Airport said that the incident on Sunday of an unruly passenger aboard the same Northwest Flight 253 that a Nigerian national attempted to blow up on Christmas Day (Friday) was a “non-serious incident.”
The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) permitted the plane to land after the pilot of the incoming flight from Amsterdam to Detroit requested an emergency landing because a passenger had spent a lengthy time in the restroom.
As soon as the plane landed, the passenger was taken into custody at Detroit airport.
The Joint Terrorism Task Force has looked into the case “and the investigation shows that this was a non-serious incident,” the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Detroit division said in a statement issued late on Sunday.
Friday’s Northwest Flight 253 — traveling the same route as the Sunday flight — was the target of an apparent terrorist attack by Nigerian citizen Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
——-Agencies