2 AF Flights diverted to for security reasons
Nov 17, 2015, 8:27 pm
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2 AF Flights diverted to for security reasons
AF 65 from LAX to CDG diverted to Salt Lake City
AF 55 IAD to CDG diverted to Halifax
Apparently phoned in bomb threats..
Be safe!
AF 55 IAD to CDG diverted to Halifax
Apparently phoned in bomb threats..
Be safe!
Nov 17, 2015, 8:40 pm
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The flight diverted to Halifax and the people disembarked and taken to secure part of airport, main runway is closed but the secondary is still open as per:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s...ifax-1.3323777
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s...ifax-1.3323777
Nov 18, 2015, 4:08 am
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There was a threatening call concerning flight AF065 from Washington.
As there's no AF065 departing from IAD (AF055) but one from LAX, AF and the authorities decided to divert both aircrafts.
As there's no AF065 departing from IAD (AF055) but one from LAX, AF and the authorities decided to divert both aircrafts.
Nov 18, 2015, 9:14 am
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Lovely. The idiots doing this can't even look up a flight schedule correctly to find which flight number corresponds to which route?
USA media made it sound like separate threats to two distinct flights.
Did either flight have problems with crew timing out due to the diversions? OTOH, I could understand crew being upset by the circumstances and perhaps not feeling fully fit to work the next portion of the flight.
USA media made it sound like separate threats to two distinct flights.
Did either flight have problems with crew timing out due to the diversions? OTOH, I could understand crew being upset by the circumstances and perhaps not feeling fully fit to work the next portion of the flight.
Nov 18, 2015, 11:55 am
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I was on AF 65. Crew handled it well and DL ground crew in SLC did a great job. Not an experience I would care to repeat. Pilot made a very hard landing so mechanics were looking for any structural damage. All pax interviewed by FBI
Nov 18, 2015, 12:02 pm
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Sorry to hear that. Did you lose a day in SLC? [In a weird way, I think I would have been interested by the type of questions the investigators were asking, but I'm reluctant to ask you about that on the internet.]
Nov 18, 2015, 1:48 pm
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Thanks for speaking up, obscure2k. Would you be willing to describe the events on landing/debrief/traveling on in greater detail? This may become a more frequent occurrence; many of us would benefit from the intel.
Nov 18, 2015, 3:12 pm
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Nov 19, 2015, 6:05 am
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Nov 20, 2015, 3:30 am
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I am going to fly AF/KLM to South America (from KUL) in a week's time. Getting a little worried about all these incidents, and the extra security at CDG when I change flights. Anxiously watching this space for any updates.
Nov 20, 2015, 5:13 am
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So, what does this event tell us about the level of confidence the 'system' has in airport security? 
It would seem that, despite the huge expenditure on, and significant inconvenience caused by, the tight security checks at airports (and I'm not in any way questioning the need for these), any would-be supporter of the terrorists can cause major disruption by making a simple telephone call!
Is there really so little trust in the effectiveness of TSA operations that we are prepared to so freely offer such a 'weapon of mass disruption' to the terrorists?
-- Henry
It would seem that, despite the huge expenditure on, and significant inconvenience caused by, the tight security checks at airports (and I'm not in any way questioning the need for these), any would-be supporter of the terrorists can cause major disruption by making a simple telephone call!
Is there really so little trust in the effectiveness of TSA operations that we are prepared to so freely offer such a 'weapon of mass disruption' to the terrorists?
-- Henry