DO THE MATH Flight furour as professor working on equations scares passenger

Posted on 05/09/2016 | About Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

An Ivy League professor says his flight was delayed because a fellow passenger thought the equations he was writing might be a sign he was a terrorist. Guido Menzio was flying from Philadelphia to Syracuse on Thursday to give a talk at Queen's University in Ontario. He was solving a differential equation, but said he was told the woman thought he might be a terrorist because of what he was writing.

American Airlines confirms that a woman expressed suspicions about University of Pennsylvania economics professor Menzio. She said she was too ill to take the Air Wisconsin-operated flight. American spokesman Casey Norton said the crew followed protocol to take care of an ill passenger and then to investigate her allegations.

They determined them to be non-credible.