RUTHFULLY YOURS

Why all the secrecy? The FBI finally released the name of the Muslim who caused the diversion of the flight last Friday while verbally abusing the crew and kicking and spitting at passengers. Saleh Ali S. Alramakh, aka Saleh Ali S. Alramaleh, age 21, of Riyadh Saudi Arabia, has been charged with interference with flight crew members and attendants.

According to the FBI, Alramakh went into the plane’s bathroom and used an electronic device while the plane was taxiing in Chicago. He allegedly refused to follow the flight attendant’s directives that he immediately turn off the device and return to his seat, but eventually returned to his seat.

Shortly after takeoff and while passengers are still required to stay seated, the FBI said Alramakh went into the bathroom again and used an electronic device. He once again refused to follow orders by the flight attendants to immediately return to his seat, investigators said.

At this point, the FBI said flight attendants unlocked and opened the bathroom door, at which point Alramakh became verbally abusive toward the attendants before returning to his seat.

At some point later in the flight, Alramakh got up a third time and approached a flight attendant in a “belligerent, confrontational manner,” the FBI said.

“Alramakh was speaking in a loud tone of voice, using profanity, with his face inches from the flight attendant’s face. The flight attendant asked Alramakh to step back multiple times, but instead Alramakh shoved the flight attendant backwards against the aircraft,” the FBI said in a news release.

At least one passenger stepped in, grabbing Alramakh and helping the flight crew restrain him, the FBI said, but Alramakh refused to comply with the crew and continued to try to kick and spit on the people around him.

Alramakh’s conduct caused the flight to divert to Cleveland, where police were waiting for him at the gate.

Now we find out the ‘unruly’ passenger who caused a flight from Chicago to Germany to be diverted, spoke with a “heavy foreign accent.”

DRY RUN? Authorities are being tight-lipped on details about the foreign man who locked himself in the airplane lavatory, then went “ballistic when he was confronted.” Gee, I wonder why? SEE VIDEO HERE: Foreign Man had to be subdued on Chicago to Germany flight which diverted to Cleveland

CBS – Some Chicagoans have quite a story to tell about the flight from O’Hare to Frankfort that was diverted Friday to Cleveland when a passenger was found hiding in the bathroom and went ballistic when he was confronted.

Joe Shulfer of Woodstock had his noise-cancelling headphones on and was sitting by himself on United Airlines Flight 944. “The flight attendant just ran up to me and literally grabbed me by the shirt and said, ‘You need to come

Cell phone photo of ‘unruly’ passenger on floor of plane. Face is intentionally blurred. I wonder why?

with me now,’” the passenger told Newsradio 780.

They came upon three men wrestling with another passenger who, Shulfer learned, had been in the restroom for 20 or 30 minutes and wouldn’t come out.

They handcuffed the suspicious passenger and tied up his feet, but he started spitting and swearing, Shulfer says. “So we duct-taped his mouth shut,” he says. “He was able to get that off himself. He almost choked himself by swallowing the duct tape.”

Then they secured a surgical mask over his face “just to get him to kind of shut up and stop spitting all over everybody.” Shulfer says he heard from United that the man had a boarding pass but wasn’t on the passenger list.

Bomb sniffing dogs were brought in but turned up nothing unusual. The plane was eventually allowed to fly back to Chicago. So far, officials have said nothing about charges. CBS 2 blurred out the suspect’s face because he has not been charged.