The Week In: Poor Communication

By Melissa August, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Daren Fonda, David Kuhn, Ellin Martens, Benjamin Nugent, Julie Rawe, John Rosenblatt, Josh Tyrangiel, Alexandra Wolfe

--In a Detroit suburb, a man walked onto a private plane and greeted the co-pilot with "Hi, Jack!" The salutation, picked up by a microphone and interpreted as "hijack," caused police, the county sheriff's SWAT team and the FBI to arrive at the scene.

--A Canadian judge was rebuked for denying a native New Yorker, who has lived in Montreal since 1944, Canadian citizenship for not speaking English well enough.

--Advocates for the deaf expressed anger that the season finale of NYPD Blue featured a deaf actor signing a prayer that deaf viewers claim made no logical sense.