UPDATE: The FBI has determined that a passenger removed from the United Airlines flight this morning posed no “identifiable threat” to the plane or its passengers and officials do not expect to file criminal charges.
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This may not be as serious as first thought. An NBC news report includes a conversation with one of the passengers aboard the plane.
“The gentleman said he had to go to the bathroom and that he couldn’t wait,” a passenger said. “The pilot said somebody is ill. We were just about to take off.”
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