Passengers Using a WiFi Network Named 'Remote Detonator' was Booted from a Flight: Report

A Canadian couple was removed from a flight departing Detroit Metropolitan Airport because they wouldn’t turn off their WiFi network, which was named “Remote Detonator,” according to a passenger who talked to the Detroit Free Press.

Aaron Greenberg, 47, was reportedly told by a flight attendant that his Thursday night flight to Montreal was being held up because a couple in the back of the plane ignored repeated requests that passengers turn off their cell phones.

It didn’t help that at least one of those two people, described as a woman with a man wearing shorts on a frigid day, gave their WiFi network such an incendiary name.

"I, at first, thought there was someone really dangerous on the back of the plane, because the pilot said they were dealing with someone in the back,” Greenberg told the Free Press.

Roughly 10 emergency vehicles were said to have surrounded the plane before the 30-something pair, reportedly from Quebec, was removed from the flight. It finally departed, three and a half hours behind schedule, an airports spokeswoman said.

Law enforcement reportedly would not confirm the network name.

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