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FBI: Man Tried To Open Plane Door On PDX-Bound Flight

POSTED: 5:32 am PST November 16, 2007
UPDATED: 11:53 pm PST November 16, 2007

FBI agents and Port of Portland officers arrested a man Thursday night after he allegedly became unruly on a flight from Chicago to Portland.

The Illinois man, identified as 45-year-old James Terry, will appear in a federal courtroom Friday on charges of disrupting the flight and interfering with the flight crew.

Agents said Terry was en route from Chicago to Portland on United Airlines flight 371 when flight attendants, believing he was intoxicated, denied him alcohol about an hour and a half into the flight.

The flight attendants told officials that Terry became agitated and they moved him to the rear of the plane, where he tried to open the rear door and touch a female flight attendant.

Agents said the flight crew used handcuffs to restrain Terry for the duration of the flight.

Terry was taken into custody in Portland and lodged in the Multnomah County Detention Center Thursday night.

He is expected to make his initial court appearance on Friday at 1:30 p.m. in U.S. District Court in Portland.

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