Backgammon game Grounds Flight

St Louis - A US Airways flight from New York to Phoenix was diverted to St. Louis after three passengers acted suspiciously, and it turns out it was all because of a board game. A Transportation Security Administration statement said US Airways flight 457 from New York’s JFK International Airport landed at Lambert Field in St. Louis shortly before 6 a.m. due to the suspicious behavior of three passengers. Agency spokeswoman Sarah Horowitz would not elaborate so it’s not known exactly what the three passengers in question were doing. One passenger said he was told there was a suspicious device, which fellow passenger Gene Austin described as a big wooden box. That box turned out to be a backgammon game. ...More