Federal Air Marshal Service: Difference between revisions

| budget          = $805 million (2014)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/25/us/air-marshals-cut/index.html |title = Homeland security thins air marshal ranks |date = 25 February 2014 |publisher=[[CNN]]}}</ref>

According to initial media reports of the incident, a fight broke out between Alpizar and his wife,<ref name=cnnwhite>{{cite news | url=http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/08/airplane.gunshot/index.html | title=White House backs air marshals' actions | author=Quijano, Elaine| date=2005-12-09 | access-date=2006-08-25| work=[[CNN]]|display-authors=etal}}</ref> after which Alpizar suddenly ran up the aisle from the back of the plane. Lonny Glover, national safety coordinator for the [[Association of Professional Flight Attendants]], said, "As the man came forward it was obvious that he was upset ... That's when one of our attendants at the front of plane told him, 'Sir, you can't leave the plane.' His response, she said, was implying that he had a bomb in his backpack.{{Citation needed|reason=the linked article, Rigoberto Alpizar, contains information enough to make the bomb claim dubious|date=October 2012}} It was at that point that the air marshals gave up their cover and pursued him out the door and up the [[jet bridge]]."<ref name=usaspot/>