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Separate events interrupt 2 United flights

Since you-know-what on Christmas Day, has there been an increase in the kind of flight diversions reported in this post, (none of them resulting in serious problems as it turned out), or is the media just filing more reports of them? What do you think?

Two United flights, one Friday afternoon and a second yesterday, were anomolies after they departed from Washington Dulles airport because of a big bird and a guy who tried to open an aircraft door in flight. The bird-strike story can be found here, and what happened to the man who may have had a few drinks is here.