At Deadline.(financial industry news briefs)

Pensions & Investments, October, 2001

Arnott on diverted plane First Quadrant managing partner Rob Arnott's flight to visit family in Toronto last Thursday took a little longer than expected. Flying from Los Angeles on Air Canada Flight 792, Mr. Arnott and the other passengers were escorted back to L.A. by two Air Force jet fighters after an Iranian passenger created a disturbance and was smoking in the bathroom.

The man allegedly made an anti-American threat, but Mr. Arnott, who sat directly across the aisle from the man, said he did not hear him make any threats. Mr. Arnott said the man was acting belligerent and appeared drunk, but he said he wasn't worried that the man was a threat. About 40 minutes into the flight, the plane returned to Los Angeles, and police stormed the plane and put a...

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