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Yemenis Questioned at JFK Airport
— -- Yemeni citizens trying to board a British Airways flight at New York's JFK airport are detained and questioned. A Russian symphony is kicked off a flight after breaking out the booze. An Iranian man is charged with trying to bring a gun aboard a Miami flight. Seven women sue terrorists over the deaths of their loved ones on Sept. 11.
31 Yemenis Stopped at JFK
N E W Y O R K, Feb. 20 — Several passengers were detained and questionedafter trying to board a British Airways flight from KennedyInternational Airport with improper travel documents for their tripto Yemen, police and airline representatives said today.
The passengers were scheduled to take British Airways Flight 116at 11 p.m. Tuesday bound for Yemen with a connection in London,said Pasquale DiFulco, a spokesman for the Port Authority of NewYork and New Jersey, which operates the airport.
DiFulco said British Airways notified the authority that severalof the 31 passengers on the flight were traveling on one-waytickets. The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force was called. Thepassengers were kept from boarding, he said.
Diana Fung, a U.S.-based spokeswoman for the airline, said someof the 31 passengers produced proper documentation and were allowedto board the flight and depart, but she did not know the exactnumber.
Jim Margolin, an FBI spokesman, did not immediately return acall seeking the number of people investigated and their status.
A police source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said thetask force was concerned that seven Yemeni passengers had allbought one-way tickets, with cash, from the same travel agency. Itwas later learned that the seven people and three others on theflight did not have proper documentation to enter Yemen, the sourcesaid.
The source said the seven people in question had apparently beencleared after questioning.
"We have a very strict security system in place," said Fung,the airline spokeswoman. She said British Airways does not boardpassengers who cannot produce the appropriate documents for theirtravel.
The Yemeni mission in New York said it was not aware of anyproblems involving Yemenis on Tuesday's flight.
— The Associated Press
Rowdy Russian Symphony Booted Off Flight
L O S A N G E L E S, Feb. 20 — Members of Russia's oldest symphony orchestra were removed from a commercial airliner after becoming rowdy en route to a performance in Los Angeles, United Airlines officials said.
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