Soccer players score in airplane emergency

Some pro soccer players bound for Los Angeles are being hailed as heroes. The FBI says members of a Major League Soccer team, the New England Revolution, helped subdue an out-of-control American Airlines passenger who stripped, put his clothes back on and then tried to open an emergency exit door. According to the Associated Press, the plane landed safely at LAX, and the team had some interesting stories to tell:

Craig Tornberg, the soccer team’s general manager, said he confronted the man as soon as he saw him emerge naked from one of the plane’s restrooms. "I said he should get back into the bathroom and put on his clothes," Tornberg said after the plane landed in Los Angeles. "He said something strange to me. He said, 'I don’t hear you. I don’t see you.'" Still, the man complied and got dressed, Tornberg said, before he "made a beeline for the emergency door." Tornberg said he, assistant coach Gwynne Williams and Michael Burns, the team’s vice president for player personnel, grabbed the man and forced him into a seat as a flight attendant ran to get restraints.

--Shelby Grad