March 1, 2004 at 11:39 pm
Thousands of departing passengers were stranded on Maui for 10 hours on Sunday when authorities closed Kahului Airport after a man drove his car into the open-air ticket lobby and set the vehicle on fire, authorities said.
Maui County police and the FBI said it was not an act of terrorism. No one was injured.
The incident occurred about 7:48 a.m. local time on Sunday. The man drove his car up a handicap access ramp and into the lobby near the United Airlines ticket counter and then ignited a flammable liquid in the back seat, said Scott Ishikawa, spokesman for the Hawaii State Department of Transportation.
“Because of the ensuing investigation, we had to shut down the airport to outgoing flights,” Ishikawa said. “We could allow planes to arrive but we couldn’t allow passengers to depart because we couldn’t screen them.”
Flights to the mainland as well as inter-island flights resumed at 6 p.m. local time on, Sunday, Ishikawa said.
The 52-year-old suspect, whose name was not released, was arrested and remains in custody, police said.
By: andrewm - 2nd March 2004 at 09:25
Matt the online bank www.egg.com do shares etc. I did a shares study in school last year and made a handsom some of £1000 after picking shares and keeping them for a money and droping them if they went down etc!
GOod fun but was a virtual £1000 :'(
By: Mark L - 2nd March 2004 at 09:16
Have to be 18 though Matt.
By: greekdude1 - 2nd March 2004 at 07:31
Oh, sorry about that! Either you have a stockbroker or you have an online account. I do the latter.
By: greekdude1 - 2nd March 2004 at 07:22
Stockmarket
By: greekdude1 - 2nd March 2004 at 04:58
Vintage Wrenchbender. By the way, I bought fifteen hundred shares of United stock about 3 weeks ago, and it’s more than doubled since. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, BABY!!!
By: Wrenchbender - 2nd March 2004 at 03:43
If you ever worked for United you would understand!!
By: greekdude1 - 1st March 2004 at 23:59
Did the flammable liquid ignite upon contact, or did he actually light it with his person?