Originally Posted by ski_the_world
wow never heard that one before...there must have been 147 very unhappy people on that flight!
Of course you could also interpret "accommodating" as an adjective modifying "passengers" rather than as a transitive verb with "pasengers" as the object.
Compare: "Gee, those sure were some accommodating passengers, tolerating that 5 hour delay!" as opposed to "NW held flight 511 because they were accommodating passengers with very special needs."