{"id":2168,"date":"2016-03-03T22:46:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T14:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/03\/flight-attendant-arrested-for-allegedly-starting-fire-in-airplane-bathroom\/"},"modified":"2016-03-03T22:46:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T14:46:32","slug":"flight-attendant-arrested-for-allegedly-starting-fire-in-airplane-bathroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/03\/flight-attendant-arrested-for-allegedly-starting-fire-in-airplane-bathroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight attendant arrested for allegedly starting fire in airplane bathroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A flight attendant who allegedly started a fire on board an airplane, then pretended to have discovered a fire and put it out, was in court on Wednesday facing federal charges.<\/p>\n

The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Johnathan Tafoya-Montano for the incident on an American Airlines Flight 1418<\/a> on Feb. 1, which led to an emergency landing at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.<\/p>\n

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Tafoya-Montano\u00a0made his first appearance in U.S. District Court on Wednesday, according to <\/span>the Detroit Free Press<\/i><\/a><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

After intentionally setting fire to paper towels using a lighter, he put much of the fire out, then stood outside the bathroom for a few minutes, pretended to discover the fire, and fully extinguished smoldering remnants<\/span>, according to court documents<\/span>. There’s no known motive yet.<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A flight attendant who allegedly started a fire on board an airplane, then pretended to have discovered a fire and put it out, was in court on Wednesday facing federal charges. The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Johnathan Tafoya-Montano for … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[787,1489,785,1112],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-air-travel","tag-american-airlines","tag-travel","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}