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PHL Houston Flight Emergency Landing, Douglas Ferrin WMD Trial, Auto Show Disruption

by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 02/10/15 11:35 am | updated: 02/10/15 11:35 am

A flight from Philadelphia to Houston had to make an emergency landing when its landing gear didn't deploy. The fight left Philadelphia International Airport a little after 6 p.m. Monday. It arrived at Houston's George Bush International Houston at about 10 p.m. The flight landed safely, but without its nose landing gear. All 52 passengers and four crew members got off American Airlines Flight 1825 on the tarmac via aircraft slides. American Airlines says the primary concern at this time is for the passengers and crew. The airline says it is in contact with authorities and cooperating with response efforts.

A 55-year-old Germantown artist is now on trial, charged with arson and possession of weapons of mass destruction following an explosion that blew off part of his right hand in May. Prosecutor Lisa Nichols has told the jury defendant Douglas Ferrin made and detonated IEDâ€™s â€” improvised explosive devices or bombs. And one blew up in his hand in May. Nichols says Ferrin, who had a neighbor on one side, a gas station on the other, recklessly endangered others. A neighbor has testified there had been multiple house rattling, terrifying explosions next door. Defense attorney A J Thomson concedes Ferrin was playing with homemade firecrackers but scoffed at the weapons of mass destruction charge, telling the jury the WMDs they didnâ€™t find in Iraq, they found on Queen Lane: a couple of homemade firecrackers. Thomson says the prosecution is trying to create shock and awe over fire crackers. Ferrin has a previous conviction for causing a fire or explosion in 2011, related to an explosion in a Chester county bar-restaurant toilet.

Pennsylvania Convention Center President and CEO John McNichol says several dozen members of the Carpenters Union disrupted the auto show Saturday by pamphleting the cars, also stuffing them in glove boxes and trunks. Martin Oâ€™Rourke from the Carpenters Union disputes this claim, saying members were exercising their first amendment right to protest. McNichol says they were granted a restraining order against the union and are investigating the disruption. The Carpenters Union says they will continue to protest until the dispute is resolved.

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