>The more I hear about this story, the more annoying it gets. This was (and is) and obvious ploy by some jerks to generate a lawsuit and try to extort some money from an airline.
... or perhaps, to set up the theater for next time, when it will be for real (real terrorist activity, not just apparent).
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)