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A US Airways flight traveling from New York to Louisville diverted to Philadelphia when crew and passengers became alarmed as a young man strapped something to his head and arm while speaking in a foreign language. Turns out that what. A 17-year-old boy on US Airways Express Flight 3079 from New York to Louisville was using tefillin, a set of small boxes containing biblical passages that are attached to leather straps, said Philadelphia police Lt. Frank Vanore. A pious teenage Jew wearing tefillin during impromptu morning prayers aboard a flight from La Guardia to Louisville this morning was detained by Homeland Security after airline officials identified him as a potential security threat,