Un avión de American Airlines que se dirigía a Nueva York, regresó desde Córdoba porque una azafata supuestamente había escuchado ruidos que provenían de la bodega. El avión ya en Ezeiza fue revisado por un equipo policial. Hablamos con uno de los pasajeros afectados: "Yo me fijé si era el día de los inocentes"
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00:00It has to do with a real mystery, an emergency landing at the international airport of Ezeiza
00:06in the framework of a flight of American Airlines.
00:08Let's see, we're going to tell you quickly what happened.
00:10Passengers began to hear blows coming from the aircraft's warehouse.
00:16At one point, no one knew what was happening.
00:21The international flight was from Buenos Aires to New York.
00:26It had to return from an emergency a few minutes later.
00:28It was flying over Cordoba,
00:31which generated a great security operation at the airport terminal.
00:36What was happening in the warehouse?
00:38These unusual noises coming from there.
00:41There was a person, others said a Halloween ghost,
00:44a terrorist act.
00:46Everything could be considerable.
00:48But well, let's start giving you the information we have.
00:52Because I don't know if this issue has been resolved.
00:56If there is an answer.
00:57Germán, how are you? Good morning.
00:59How are you, Guille?
01:00I was accessing the report of the airport security police.
01:04What happened yesterday woke up the alarms.
01:07What you just said, the last thing,
01:10was what forced to carry out a rigorous procedure
01:13in which the tactical special group intervened,
01:16a group of explosive control, a synotechnical binomial with CANES.
01:21What happened on the flight to the John Fitzgerald Kennedy airport
01:25from Seiza to American Airlines, flight AA954?
01:30Passengers began to hear noises coming from the warehouse.
01:35Because of this, the commander informs
01:39that they will return to Seiza International Airport
01:42Minister Pistarini for an operational matter.
01:45It generated a panic inside the plane.
01:47They say that in front of a signal from one of the aircraft
01:51there was a response with blows.
01:54In other words, it was assumed that someone was inside.
01:56Of course, Guille, because the aircraft, the on-board staff,
02:00has a special room at the bottom of these large planes,
02:06large-sized, where they rest when they are night flights,
02:09which is attached to what is the warehouse.
02:11Of course.
02:12Then it was hit and there was an answer.
02:16What did they say?
02:17Either there is a person inside or there is some artifact.
02:20For that same reason, when the plane was flying over the province of Córdoba,
02:25it turns and there the commander informs the crew and the passenger
02:32that there would be a person in the warehouse.
02:34The same plane commander gives that information.
02:37Of course, and of course, long faces began, right?
02:40Because some passengers even began to question
02:43the measures that the airline was adopting.
02:46They demanded better communication and that they be explained
02:48the exact cause of the incident.
02:50Let's see, many went forward to talk to the staff.
02:54They asked them to please sit down.
02:56The people wanted to know.
02:58We want to know, as passengers, why we are returning.
03:01What are those noises due to?
03:03If there is a person, it was even suspected that it could be armed.
03:07That is why I reiterate the assessment that it could be a terrorist act.
03:12From which, as a result of this episode, they had to return, yes or yes,
03:16but have an operative on the runway, in case this possibility was feasible.
03:23You know that when there are emergency landings,
03:26for some operational reason, the fire brigade quickly gets ready.
03:30There it is, you see it.
03:32They are those special yellow autobombs,
03:36which are commonly given when the landing is an emergency
03:38for an operational or technical reason of the plane.
03:40This time, all the special groups were ready,
03:44both the airport security police and the ANAC,
03:48the Federal Police Fire Brigade.
03:50It was an operation that is not recorded in the short term in Ezeiza.
03:57They had to somehow get the possibility,
04:01first, that it was a terrorist attack.
04:03Where was the plane going?
04:05To the John F. Kennedy airport in New York City.
04:09It was not any destination.
04:13It was not any destination in a war-time international context.
04:17Imagine what it was for everyone, right?
04:20Even the crew, especially used to these flights and these situations,
04:23there was panic above the plane.
04:24Do you want to talk to a person who was there?
04:26Let's see.
04:26Marcelo Rabinovich, thank you for attending us.
04:28How are you? Good morning.
04:30How are you? Good morning.
04:31I hope you are very well.
04:32We are here reporting what our sources gave us,
04:36but you were there.
04:37Can you tell us what happened?
04:39Well, what happened was that the flight to the United States,
04:44at the hour and a half that we were flying,
04:46they told us that we were going to return.
04:48We did not understand why.
04:50When we investigated, they told us that the swindler
04:53heard some blows on the ground of the plane,
04:57apparently because there was someone in the cellar who was hitting,
05:00as if he wanted to get out.
05:02And here, apparently, that was what stopped the plane from returning.
05:07It caught our attention how someone could be listening
05:10that someone was hitting from the cellar on the floor.
05:13So, sorry, at first they assumed it was a person who was hitting?
05:17Yes.
05:18Okay.
05:18Exactly.
05:19I mean, imagine that soon you are walking on the plane
05:23and someone hears a noise, rests his ear,
05:25and apparently there was someone who was hitting
05:29and responded to the blows of the person who was upstairs,
05:31who was the swindler,
05:33and they assumed that there was a person in the cellar
05:36and that this determined the return.
05:38Obviously, we are all quite surprised
05:40by the decision that was being made.
05:41Sure.
05:42Were you listening at the same time, Marcelo?
05:45Did you hear?
05:45No, no, no, no, no, no.
05:47The truth is that the only person who heard
05:49apparently was the swindler and a passenger.
05:52Okay.
05:53And that's where they determined that we had to return
05:57to the airport, let's say, of Seiza.
05:59They warned us on the plane
06:01that we should not panic because surely when we arrived
06:04there were going to be a fairly large number of police,
06:06firefighters, etc.
06:07I mean, don't be scared, but it's going to be a lot of...
06:10I mean, when you get to the runway,
06:11you're going to find everything.
06:12I mean, I mean...
06:14Totally.
06:14Are they preparing you for what...
06:17because you had to consider that there was an armed person,
06:19that this was a terrorist act?
06:22Actually, until that moment,
06:24the only thing that caught our attention
06:25is how a person could supposedly...
06:28Have you been there?
06:29Sure.
06:30Exactly, that supposedly it was the people
06:32who dispatch the bags on the plane,
06:35which caught our attention.
06:37And besides, we assumed that with the ambient temperature
06:39that there is at that height of the plane,
06:42you couldn't survive.
06:43Exactly.
06:43The question is that we return
06:46and when the plane starts to land,
06:48that's where this whole operation begins.
06:52Yes.
06:52The first thing they do is obviously start
06:55to take everything out of the warehouse.
06:58There were a lot of people there waiting to see what...
07:00What came out of there?
07:02Nothing came out of there except our suitcases.
07:05Right.
07:06And when they had to take out all the bags from the warehouse,
07:09there was a group, obviously a special group,
07:14armed to the teeth.
07:17All this was happening.
07:18While we looked out the window,
07:19we didn't understand anything
07:20because we also asked what was happening.
07:22They told us to stay calm.
07:25So they never told you...
07:26They never gave you a clue.
07:28But when you saw that,
07:29you thought,
07:30Hugo, the shots are being fired here.
07:31Someone will come to see.
07:34Totally.
07:34I mean, actually, first it was...
07:36Yes.
07:37And actually, you think that at first
07:39you assume that there was an accident,
07:41that a person was left in the warehouse.
07:43After a while, they take everything out,
07:45there is no one.
07:46That's why he could be hidden.
07:47Because he could be hidden
07:48somewhere, hidden.
07:50Yes.
07:51And that's where we see
07:53that a command group enters the warehouse,
07:54but then they tell us,
07:56the other person,
07:58let's say also from the crew,
07:59that we had to go back to the seat
08:00because the police were going to come,
08:02they were going to get on the plane,
08:04and they were going to check
08:05if each one of us had his ticket.
08:07We said, well,
08:08they must be assuming
08:09that among the passengers
08:10there is a suspect.
08:11A movie.
08:12Of course.
08:12A movie, 24, with Jack Bauer.
08:14In this case, the judge intervenes.
08:16Of course, the judge intervenes.
08:17Yes, yes, sorry, complete.
08:19No, no, and then we put a little
08:20of emotional sauce,
08:21just suddenly,
08:22we started singing
08:22happy birthday to another passenger.
08:25It was a kind of magical thing.
08:26How to repeat?
08:28Repeat that to me.
08:29In the middle of the operation,
08:30where there could be someone hiding,
08:32a terrorist,
08:33did they sing
08:34a happy birthday to someone?
08:35Maybe it was a ...
08:36Of course,
08:36how are we going to ruin
08:37someone's birthday,
08:38which just coincided
08:39at the same time,
08:40so while the police
08:41entered the warehouse,
08:42we sang
08:43happy birthday to a passenger.
08:45Marcelo, we have it,
08:46thanks to you, obviously.
08:47Let's see, put it on, put it on,
08:47because this is unprecedented.
08:50Gentlemen,
08:51they are looking for a terrorist
08:52on the plane.
08:53In the meantime,
08:54applause for birthday.
08:56We had to release tensions, Guille.
08:59The crazy people know.
09:00Everyone says,
09:01what is this?
09:02A horror or a comedy?
09:04No, imagine the tension
09:05that was at that moment, Guille.
09:06We had to release tension
09:08in some way.
09:08If I could, I would run.
09:09They were looking for a terrorist.
09:11Imagine, you land
09:12and you see specialized groups.
09:14Armed to the teeth.
09:15Armed,
09:16that when I started
09:17to see the images today,
09:18I said, I didn't see this,
09:19except in,
09:19really,
09:20terrorist attacks.
09:21Sure, let's see,
09:22Marcelo,
09:23while they sang
09:25happy birthday,
09:25you were already aware
09:27that anything could happen down there.
09:30No, we weren't aware of anything,
09:32because first,
09:33supposedly it was a person
09:35who had been trapped in the warehouse.
09:37Sure.
09:37But when,
09:38apart from really,
09:39we were watching how they took out the bags,
09:41they took out the bags,
09:41and when we saw that there was nothing left,
09:43we said, but where will it be?
09:44Just like the movie
09:45where is the pilot?
09:46Sure.
09:46Where will the policeman be?
09:47He won't be among us.
09:48Wait, that's what you thought.
09:49He won't be among us.
09:51I mean, who is the traitor?
09:53The last scene of Jesus Christ.
09:55Well, actually,
09:56we were shocked
09:57when they asked us to sit down,
09:58to stay calm,
09:59because possibly the police would come up
10:02to check that everyone has their ticket
10:04and is sitting where they have to be.
10:05Yes.
10:06But the worst of all,
10:07is that when this whole situation
10:09starts to clear up,
10:11well,
10:12we said,
10:13let's go out.
10:13No, no, no, no.
10:14Now they have to wait,
10:15because according to the number of hours
10:17that the people,
10:18the crew is working,
10:20they are evaluating
10:21if we are going to Miami
10:22for the number of hours
10:23that we had to lose in this episode.
10:26Beautiful.
10:27The point is that we wait
10:28until one and a half in the morning
10:29to see if the plane
10:31goes to Miami
10:31and from there to New York.
10:33Exactly.
10:33And they don't clarify,
10:34I mean, it ends,
10:36this whole situation ends with,
10:38unfortunately,
10:40we don't go out.
10:40We don't go out.
10:41How do we not go out?
10:42No, we don't go out.
10:43So tomorrow,
10:44I mean, today,
10:45at seven in the afternoon,
10:46the same flight goes to New York
10:48with the, well,
10:49obviously,
10:50with the repercussion
10:51that this has on the people,
10:52that they already had things
10:53armed, etc.
10:54Of course, of course.
10:54And then came the second odyssey,
10:57which was, obviously,
10:59that all this amount of people
11:00is on the plane.
11:01Well, how do you move them?
11:03And well,
11:04Where do you send them?
11:05Some hotel?
11:07Yes, but not all.
11:08I mean, some,
11:10we are lucky, the hotel,
11:11there are other people
11:12who are still asking,
11:13please,
11:14to be moved to some place
11:15to be able to fly today.
11:16But the truth is that it was a situation
11:18that I am just now trying,
11:19look, I tell you,
11:21to be aware of everything we live.
11:23But wait, Marce,
11:23we are ahead of something.
11:25Someone in Monterrey said,
11:26come, come all, come.
11:27What happened was such a thing?
11:29Or are we still in a mess?
11:32No, no, no,
11:32we don't know if it was a mistake
11:34of the fraud,
11:34I still find it a bit strange
11:36that there is a day
11:36when I hear noise.
11:37Of course, not judging,
11:38I understand,
11:39because what they say
11:40in police information
11:41is that the judiciary
11:42did not start actions
11:44in that sense.
11:45It was a mistake,
11:46it was a mistake
11:47that generated panic,
11:48that generated a very expensive operation,
11:50it has to have a responsible,
11:52obviously.
11:52And there I was watching on Flyradar,
11:54it is a page that shows me
11:55all the activity of the plane,
11:57as the witness just told.
11:59The flight is later canceled,
12:02they tell them that they are going to go to Miami,
12:03the flight to Miami is there,
12:05the same flight,
12:06and it is also canceled.
12:07We are already talking about a matter
12:08of lack of respect
12:10on the part, obviously,
12:11of an international airline.
12:11No, totally.
12:12After the tension they had,
12:13they still have them there.
12:15Yes, but I go back to something, Marcelo.
12:17Those who listened were a scam.
12:19That is the route of the plane.
12:20And a passenger, two people?
12:23And a passenger.
12:23Only two people?
12:24What we were told,
12:26obviously we were asking the scammer,
12:29the scammer to whom we asked
12:31said, look, apparently
12:33there is a person on the plane
12:34who is knocking to get out.
12:35This was the only thing
12:37we found out on the flight.
12:38What caught our attention
12:40is, it is very difficult, I imagine,
12:42with the external sound of the plane,
12:45the internal murmur,
12:47that one can hear
12:48that someone is knocking from below.
12:50But they know, they know.
12:52American or Argentine scam?
12:54No, no, no.
12:55All the assumptions are American.
12:57And well, apparently,
12:59exactly.
13:01Apparently they heard this
13:03and they must have taken it as something true.
13:05We assumed they were going to get off
13:07at a nearby airport
13:09to continue north,
13:11but there they took a wrong turn.
13:13There we see what is the route of the plane,
13:15which is seen in blue, already in flight,
13:17and the turn that hits the turn
13:19about the province of Cordoba,
13:21that yes, clearly what they said,
13:23in the face of an emergency,
13:25that there is a person,
13:27that there is an explosive artifact,
13:29they should have asked the crew,
13:31the commander, to land in Cordoba.
13:33But what they understand
13:35is that the necessary operation was so great
13:37that the airport in Cordoba did not have it.
13:39Here they tell me that the flight is canceled
13:41because the crew was defeated.
13:43That crew had already met a schedule,
13:45they cannot get on the same plane,
13:47they were already tired,
13:49because if they heard noise in the plane,
13:51they had already rested.
13:53Marcelo, coffee question.
13:55Did they have alcoholic beverages?
13:57Did anyone drink something?
13:59Did you have that imagination?
14:01I noticed that it was the day of the innocents.
14:03It was Halloween, which is not little.
14:05It was Halloween.
14:07Well, it was a bit of humor
14:09that the two of us had,
14:11which is precisely
14:13what we assumed was part
14:15of the new American service,
14:17which was escape room.
14:19We said it was going to be a new activity,
14:21escape room.
14:23They are doing a test with us.
14:25The truth is that it was incredible.
14:27And when can you travel?
14:29Today at 7 p.m.
14:31Supposedly today at 7 p.m.
14:33we are returning,
14:35so let's hope that this time
14:37they check the warehouse well.
14:39It was an incredible situation.
14:41Thank you, Marcelo.
14:43Incredible.
14:45Thank you for your testimony.