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No Charges for Passenger Who Prompted La Guardia Emergency Landing

  A spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the
  authorities determined that there was “no criminality” involved in the
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  Emergency personnel restrained an unidentified man after a plane made
  an emergency landing Saturday at La Guardia Airport. He was not
  charged, officials said.
  Emergency personnel restrained an unidentified man after a plane made
  an emergency landing Saturday at La Guardia Airport. He was not
  charged, officials said.Credit...@Lbrgdl, via Reuters

  By [10]Eduardo Medina
  Oct. 10, 2021

  A passenger whose erratic behavior prompted pilots to make [11]an
  emergency landing at La Guardia Airport on Saturday afternoon was not
  charged after the authorities determined that he “did not make a verbal
  threat” and was not carrying a suspicious item, a spokesman for the
  Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said.

  The man, who was not identified by the Port Authority Police
  Department, was briefly detained and questioned by the authorities,
  including the F.B.I., and then released, the spokesman, Thomas
  Topousis, said on Sunday.

  “The Port Authority Police Department determined there was no
  criminality,” Mr. Topousis said in a statement on Sunday.

  Shortly before 3 p.m. on Saturday, a pilot of the plane, which was a
  Republic Airways aircraft operating as American Flight 4817, told
  workers at a control tower at La Guardia Airport that he was “declaring
  an emergency,” according to a [12]recording posted on LiveATC.net.

  “We have a situation where a person, a suspicious person, has an item
  that looks like an explosive device,” the pilot says, according to the
  recording.

  The pilot then says that he is going to land. “We’re planning to turn
  off the runway, and then we will plan to evacuate,” he says, according
  to the recording.

  The pilot later says that crew members “don’t know what this person
  has,” adding, “Everyone else is scared on this aircraft.”

  After the plane landed, firefighters and police personnel converged on
  the aircraft, which had traveled from Indianapolis with about 78
  passengers aboard.

  Passengers exited the plane safely, said a spokesman for the Federal
  Aviation Administration, Steve Kulm.

  A Republic Airways spokesman, Jon Austin, said on Saturday that an
  emergency was declared in response to unspecified passenger behavior
  near the end of the flight.

  A [13]video taken on the ground showed emergency responders surrounding
  a man who was on his stomach as passengers stood nearby. [14]In another
  video, evacuated passengers are told to “step back” to give responders
  and the man space.

  A passenger aboard the flight described a scene of pandemonium after
  the plane landed. Fawad Khuja, who was seated in the fourth row, said
  on Saturday that the plane had braked soon after it touched down and
  that passengers behind him started yelling to get off the plane
  immediately.

  He heard people saying that a man had “a suspicious device.”

  “People were panicking and getting shoved to the ground,” he said. “The
  slide opened and I jumped out. People were sliding and rolling down to
  the floor. It was crazy.”

  Alyssa Lukpat and Precious Fondren contributed reporting.

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