Terrorism has been a buzzword for people in the media and the government ever since the infamous September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the
changed. they attacked with a it was a pop can. of course around about five, ten years ago, of course the threat of cell phone bombs became prevalent. so if someone s acting dramatic, the flight attendants move people away from the source of the threat. if they can identify an item that is the threat, they re supposed to put items on top of it in case something explodes. if somebody s acting erratically, they are permitted to use zip ties or any other manner they have to restrain the person and after 9/11, passengers readily jumped in and help just as they did with the shoe bomber to take the shoe bomber down and the underwear bomber as well. so it could be any number of things, but this is what they have to do. they have to call in the emergency and we knew from the early calls it was probably not a medical emergency because that s handled through a company that handles in-flight medical