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2007-03-05 Home Front: WoT
Possible Terrorist probe on AA#62 in Feb
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Posted by anonymous2u 2007-03-05 13:43|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Sure sounds like a probe to me. The FO should have played whack-a-mole with the perps.
Posted by Spot">Spot  2007-03-05 15:14||   2007-03-05 15:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Yup. Another reason to make sure the Flight Officers are armed with nothing more than flashlights.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-03-05 16:34||   2007-03-05 16:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Why the perps weren't clubbed to death into unconsciousness at the first sign of foul play is beyond me. This was a probe or, possibly, far worse. I hope their subsequent interrogation sessions included repeated deep cavity searches.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-03-05 16:37||   2007-03-05 16:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3, Testing.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-03-05 16:51||   2007-03-05 16:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Surprised there was no response from some of the other PAX. Would have figured that there was still some who believed in the post 9-11 actions and Flt 93......
Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-03-05 16:57||   2007-03-05 16:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Surprised there was no response from some of the other PAX. Would have figured that there was still some who believed in the post 9-11 actions and Flt 93.

Agreed. Even Mauritania learned that lesson.
Posted by xbalanke 2007-03-05 17:11||   2007-03-05 17:11|| Front Page Top

#7 When I fly, I carry (in my carry-on) a big bar of soap and a pair of knee-high wool socks with extra reinforcing stitching in the toes. Once airborne it only takes a second to get it ready. Just in case. One good bean on the noggin of a Perp, and it would be lights out. Why yes, I was a Boy Scout! Why do you ask?
Posted by Chiper Threreger8956 2007-03-05 17:16||   2007-03-05 17:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Pull them off the plane in Miami, take them to Little Havana, let them out, spread the word they are Arab agents working for Castro to infiltrate the Cuban community.
Posted by anymouse">anymouse  2007-03-05 17:31||   2007-03-05 17:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Having a hard time believing this happened. Is there a single person on this board that wouldn't have organized his fellow passengers and killed these men? But then again the flight was coming from Paris. Heaven knows the Muslim fire bugs there are peaceful.

If it did happen where is the news from the fbi? My guess is that they are still in Salt Lake covering up that mooslimb terrorist attack.
Spit-

The actor James Woods witnessed a dry run, on an American Airlines cross-country flight, in August of 2001. That dry run was conducted by Mohammad Atta and three of his men. During that flight, Woods informed the American Airlines captain that Atta and his men were behaving like they might hijack that plane; the captain informed the FAA what Woods told him but nothing was done because that was before 9/11. (Federal officials have known about dry runs since at least 1994.) And so the Woods dry run story ends in great tragedy.
Posted by Icerigger 2007-03-05 18:08||   2007-03-05 18:08|| Front Page Top

#10 CAER would complain but the result of this should be a sign on the cockpit door, in Arabic, saying coming near the cockpit will result in ten years in prison. Lingering will result in a life (or death) depending.

At least that would eliminate the "I didn't know, I'm just a furriner" angle. We can put Esparanto and English on the sign as well to ensure it doesn't profile Arabic speakers or anything.
Posted by rjschwarz 2007-03-05 18:22||   2007-03-05 18:22|| Front Page Top

#11 All flights should carry syringes of appropriate knock-out meds in cockpit and hidden places in cockpits. Flying waitresses/waiter stewardesses/stewards need to be replaced with martial arts trained crew. (They don't serve that much food now anyway)
Posted by kacc 2007-03-05 18:37||   2007-03-05 18:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Delta/Comair have been training their flight attendants, at least those here in Cincinnati, for at least two years. There's a stewardess who is a student at the TaeKwanDo school Mr. Wife and the trailing daughters go to. She's a second degree black belt, and she and the school's master worked out a style for airplane aisles; they've been training the stews to use it for the last two years.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-05 19:35||   2007-03-05 19:35|| Front Page Top

#13  "Transportation Security Administration has succeeded in arming only the smallest fraction of our pilots and has rejected and discouraged volunteers by the thousands." -- Marc Flagg, president of Federal Flight Deck Officers Association in testimony before Congress 2005. Marc Flagg's parents were murdered on AA Flight 77 on 9/11.
Arming & enrolling pilots as federal law enforcers was ordered by Congress around 2002 and has been thoroughly blocked by the TSA and the Bush administration since. [Source]
The only time the Bush administration was serious about flight safety was when it grounded all US flights immediately after 9/11. It has not acted seriously since. Syringes, indeed.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-03-05 20:15||   2007-03-05 20:15|| Front Page Top

#14 Is there a single person on this board that wouldn't have organized his fellow passengers and killed these men?

Re-read the article, Icerigger. All the action took place in the forward galley within paces of the cockpit door. Had the perps gained entry and subdued the flight deck, they would have been behind a locked door and most likely diving the plane into the ocean had it opened again.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-03-05 22:13||   2007-03-05 22:13|| Front Page Top

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