An Ivy¹ League professor aboard an American Airlines flight was questioned after a passenger mistook a math equation for Arabic and possible Islamic code for a terrorist attack. 

 

一位常春藤名校的教授在乘坐美国航空的航班时，有乘客误把他写的数学公式当成阿拉伯文和恐怖袭击的伊斯兰组织代码，导致他本人不得不接受盘问。

 

Guido Menzio, an economics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was working on a differential math equation as the Syracuse-bound plane was preparing to take off from Philadelphia. 

 

The 41-minute flight was delayed by two hours as the olive-skinned, curly, dark-haired native Italian was questioned. 

 

A blond-haired woman wearing flip-flops and appearing to be in her 30s had passed a note to a flight attendant. American Airlines flight 3950 returned to the gate at Philadelphia International Airport and was met by what he described as an "FBI-looking man in black." 

 

He learned the woman thought he was a terrorist. 

 

After realizing he was only doing math, the flight took off minus the complaining passenger. The woman boarded a later flight for Syracuse. Menzio boarded the original flight again.

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