>>>>It wasn't just "some nervous passengers". The crew felt that was also, and the air marshall they interviewed agreed.
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>>>And just what do you expect those people to "feel" if asked? They have to include in their own deliberations that the scardy-cat is a PAYING passenger. They have to include that they'd look very bad indeed if something did go awry during the flight.
>>>Put in that position there's only 1 answer. But the issue is that they shouldn't be put into that position in the first place.
>>>Security has "cleared" the passenger and he can be assumed to have no items that can endanger passengers or crew. If some passenger is afraid of what another passenger might have in mind isn't the simplest answer all-round to have the scared passenger take some other flight? It's the scared passenger's problem, after all, and not that of the innocent passenger who is making him fearful.
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>>You have far more faith in the perfection of the security clearance systems than I do. And I suppose too, in the lack of creativity of terrorists to be able to cirucumvent good security.
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>That's not the issue here. The issue is that one person, scared another may be up to something, can have the person they are fearful of ejected from the flight rather than themselves choosing to take another flight.
>If the security is worth anything at all then it demands that it be taken a face value, in which case it is the frightened passenger who deserves to be off the flight, not some innocent person.

According to the story I read, a passenger passed a note to the crew. It was ultimately the crew that decided their activity was suspicious enough to eject them.

I also agree with others here that the reason for the worry was created deliberately by the Imams, so they got what they wanted by being tossed off, and I don't feel they should get any more than that.

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>Using your logic, I would be "smart" to make a fuss at the gate if I was a highjacker. I would disrupt the flight, cause anger by having someone ejected, and likely be less scrutinized in the whole process. I might even have a "legitimate" excuse to make my way to the cockpit to "thank" the Captain... then grab the controls.

Again, I must have missed that part of the story. The story you read was about somebody making a big fuss until the Imams were ejected? The one I read said a passenger passed a note to the crew and the crew made a decision about the Imams' activity.

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>>>A passenger who is afraid of someone else on a flight ought to quietly tell the gate keepers that he prefers to take another flight. It would be totally different if he had SEEN a gun or a knife, but in theory that cannot happen.
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>>>How do you think the flight crew and air marshall would have handled the situation of the scardy-cat said he was afraid of being on the same plane with Some guy in uniform or some famous person or if he was sure the person (being feared) was indeed Adolf Hitler?
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>>>To let a scardy-cat cause someone to be removed from any flight is placing the responsibility in the wrong place. And in the stupidest of places too!