text: UPDATE, 11:19 a.m. A statement from American Airlines, posted by Staff Writer Terry Maxon on our Airline Biz Blog. 
   
   This morning Flight 2332 had left the gate at DFW bound for Chicago, when an incident occurred involving some of the cabin crew. The aircraft returned to the gate, where it was met by Department of Public Safety officers. Two flight attendants were taken to local hospitals for treatment. We continue to investigate the details and circumstances and will have no further comment at this time. We will ensure that the affected flight attendants receive proper care, and we commend our other crew members for their assistance in quickly getting the aircraft back to the gate so that customers could be re-accommodated. Our customers were not in danger at any time. The cabin crew was replaced. The flight departed for Chicago at 9:46 a.m., and is scheduled to land around noon. We apologize for any inconvenience to our customers and we appreciate their patience and understanding. 
   
   
   
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   UPDATE, 11:04 a.m. Here's the Chicago Tribune's story. It doesn't add much. 
   
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   UPDATE, 10:55 a.m. Lydia Maese, spokeswoman for the FBI said: "AA is handling all the inquiries. We did respond, we assessed the situation and we determined there was no need for a federal investigation." 
   
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   UPDATE, 10:41 a.m. The flight took off for Chicago shortly before 10 a.m. -- about 80 minutes late. 
   
   Here's a flight-tracker site where you can watch the aircraft's progress (or, for that matter, the progress of any domestic flight.) Below is a screen-grab from this site. 
   
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   UPDATE, 10:34 a.m. The Federal Aviation Administration, without offering any new details, confirms that something happened. "We were told there was an altercation," said FAA spokesman Tony Molinaro "They requested to be met by D/FW police and TSA." 
   
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   We're receiving numerous unconfirmed reports, via email and Twitter, that a flight attendant aboard an American Airlines flight at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport got on the intercom system and began ranting in a way that alarmed passengers and authorities. 
   
   According to passengers, the flight attendant was subdued by passengers, and the plane, Flight 2332, which was about to take off for Chicago, was returned to the gates. 
   
   The flight attendant "came on the PA system ranting about AA bankruptcy and then telling them the plane was going to crash," said the sister of one woman on the plane. 
   
   "She was addressing the captain, telling him not to take off, that it would not be her responsibility when the plane crashes and that it was going to crash. Then she was tackled by first-class passengers, who threw her against the wall." 
   
   Another passenger told as friend, according to an email from that friend, that "the flight attendant went crazy, screaming abut 9-11 and crashing. Six men held her down." 
   
   Here's a version of the story from Unfair Park, 
   
   A second flight attendant may have been injured in the scuffle. 
   
   We're working to get confirmation and details. ||||| An American Airlines flight attendant disrupted a flight Friday morning as it was about to take off from Dallas-Fort Worth en route to Chicago, saying over the aircraft intercom system that the plane was going to crash, alluding to 9/11 terrorist attacks and ranting about the airline's bankruptcy reorganization, passengers said.Passengers ended up restraining the female flight attendant in a forward seat of the cabin until the plane returned to the gate and airport police arrived.Two flight attendants were injured in the incident and were taken to a local hospital. No passengers were injured, and they were never in danger, an airline spokeswoman said.The flight attendant who caused the commotion shrieked as she was handcuffed by police and placed into a police car, passengers on the flight told the Tribune after they exited the plane at Chicago O'Hare "I will never get that sound of her screaming out of my head," said Bethany Christakos of Plano, Texas. "It took a good 10 minutes, it felt like, to get her off of the plane."Other passengers said the incident ended after about 15 minutes, but it made them nervous. "We were pretty frightened," said Elmhurst resident Greg Lozano. "I was glad we weren't in the air. That was the primary thing I was thinking."The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed there was an "altercation" involving American Airlines Flight 2332, which eventually landed at Chicago O'Hare at 11:46 a.m., more than an hour late.According to reports by passengers, the trouble began Friday morning as the plane taxied to the runway for takeoff. A flight attendant who had been giving preflight safety instructions began speaking incoherently over the intercom system, confusing and startling passengers.The attendant said the plane had a mechanical issue and was going to return to the airport gate. However, other flight attendants interrupted and said there were no mechanical issues and that the plane was preparing for takeoff.The upset flight attendant then said over the public-address system that it would not be her fault if the plane crashed. She began speaking in incomplete sentences, using the words "bankruptcy" and "American Airlines," passengers said. She also referred to the 9/11 terrorist attacks at one point, passengers said.Some passengers then began using mobile phones to call 911.Other flight attendants on the plane attempted to calm the woman, but she continued to be agitated. Three or four passengers then left their seats and went to the front of the plane to help restrain her as the plane returned to the gate, a move requested by the pilot, the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed.Brad LeClear of Fox Lake was among the passengers to help. He was returning to Chicago from a business trip. He and several of his Sam's Club colleagues helped restrain the flight attendant. "She was making erratic statements over the PA and mentioned that everybody was going to crash," LeClear said. "That's when it really got out of control."Steve Termunde, also returning from the Sam's Club business trip, said passengers thought at first that the flight attendant didn't realize she was speaking over the public-address system. But as she continued a rant, they realized something was wrong. "When she said 'crash' twice, we knew something was wrong," he said. "That's when everyone started to undo their seatbelts, and we were ready to take action ourselves."A pilot who was catching a ride on the plane in first class approached the woman, who was standing near the pilot's cockpit door, along with other flight attendants. "He got up and tried to subdue her, tried to take the mic away because she kept talking on the mic and getting everybody a little nervous and upset," Termunde said.That's when other passengers came to help. "It was a good wrestle to get her to her seat," he said. "There were about five people holding her down."Some passengers said the woman appeared to be having a mental breakdown. One passenger said the flight attendant mentioned that she suffered from a bipolar condition and that she had not taken her medication."She was in a manic-type state," LeClear said. "I tried to talk her down and calm her down a little bit. She said she was bipolar. We continued to hold her until authorities arrived and when they showed up we helped get the cuffs on."A flight attendant who appeared to be injured while attempting to restrain the woman was placed on a gurney and taken away in an ambulance.
target: – Details are still sketchy, but something seriously weird and unpleasant happened aboard an American Airlines flight set to take off from Dallas to Chicago today. Early accounts suggest that one of the flight attendants got on the PA system and began ranting about how the plane was going to crash and about the company's financial troubles, report the Chicago Tribune and Dallas Morning News. At that point, several passengers apparently subdued her. Two other flight attendants suffered injuries in the melee, and the plane returned to the gate. The airline has confirmed that an "incident occurred involving some of the cabin crew" and said it is still investigating, as is the FAA. The Dallas newspaper quotes an email from a passenger to a friend: "The flight attendant went crazy, screaming about 9-11 and crashing. Six men held her down."