You know...a lot has been said on this thread about whether or not the FA had the right to order the passenger to stop taking pics and threatening to have the police meet the plane if they did not stop.
Look....the situation is this: mere days after Osama Bin Laden was declared dead and the traveling public has told to be "on alert" for retaliation.... you have an American Airlines flight (one of the major carriers involved in 9/11) flying along with an apparently upset person yelling something in a foreign language making his way to the front of the aircraft.....
The passenger is in the process of being subdued and another passenger starts taking pics.
Look...believe it or not there is the belief that terrorists on 9/11 trained on how to take over airplanes.
There is the belief that terrorists are STILL studing how to take over commercial airliners.
They arent stupid...they "study" the reaction of the crew and passengers.
Now you have a passenger going crazy....making his way to the front of the plana....and in the process of being subdued, another passenger is taking pics.
What is not to say....this wasn't a "test"...see how the passengers and crew react, document what happened....the crew didnt know that the pic-taker wasnt on the sides of this "crazy" passenger.
Perhaps this "passenger" was working along-side the alleged "crazy" man and documenting on film how the crew would react? How they would restain him? Getting it all on film?
I am certainly not saying this WAS the case...but in the days after Osama Bin Laden's death when people are being told to be on alert and you have a passenger apparently trying to make his way to the front of the plane and another passenger documenting the crew's reaction on film.....it makes sense that the crew didnt want pics taken of their reaction.
Like I said...the 9/11 hijackers studied the flights...the crews...the passegers. Maybe THAT is the reason the FA threatened to call the police on a passenger taking pics of someone being restrained and how the crew reacted.
Why was the passenger filming this? So they have the crew's reaction and method or restraining a passenger on film? Who knows. But it may explain why the crew made the threat of calling the police.