Newsstand - Air France Groundings Reportedly a Mistake

The plot sickens:

(From MSNBC a little while ago)

"PARIS - Air France's grounding of three transatlantic flights over Christmas was a mistake, based on FBI information that in one case confused a child's name with a suspected terrorist, the Wall Street Journal Europe said on Friday...."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3858080/

I linked to the WSJ article (free access) in an earlier post here:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum109/HTML/007727-2.html

It's a fascinating article.

[This message has been edited by blairvanhorn (edited Jan 02, 2004).]

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2004-01-02-british-air-review_x.htm

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A source close to French judges handling terror cases told Reuters the report could not be true, because U.S. investigators had never given passenger names, only flight numbers.
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Oops.

It continuously stuns me that frequent travellers are willing to put so many lives at risk in order to make a point that is all about their own politics, and not at all about security.

I agree with Flies.. the plot sickens. In fact, it stinks.

This is already being discussed, thanks for posting but let's keep the existing thread intact.

--richard, moderator