"Allahu Akbar": Man Storms Cockpit in CA. Rageh Almurisi in Custody

Some pretty interesting news out of the Golden State. Apparently a Yemeni man attempted to storm the cockpit of a commercial airliner. It is unclear if he was intending to fly the plane, crash the plane, or something else. This has lit up the net in just a day.

From the actual flight:

More details from FoxNews. The passengers did not take this lying down. They tackled Rageh Almurisi:

Andrew Wai, another passenger, told KGO-TV on Monday that the wife of one of the men who took Almurisi down later said Almurisi was yelling "Allahu Akbar."

"There was no question in everybody's mind that he was going to do something," Marty said.

A male flight attendant tackled Almurisi, and other crew members and passengers, including a retired Secret Service agent and a retired San Mateo police officer, helped subdue him as he banged on the door, police said. The flight attendant put plastic handcuffs on him.

"Everybody was fixated on him," Marty said. "You never think that something like that would happen in your life."

Whoa.

 H/t: HotAir.

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