AA34 LAX-JFK incident 11 Sep 2011
Sep 11, 2011, 6:24 pm
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Turns out it was all a bit of 9/11 paranoia. Some people are WAY too jumpy about perfectly normal behavior:
"Oh my God! That guy pees too much! CALL THE PENTAGON!!!"
"Two fighter jets escorted a Los Angeles-to-New York American Airlines flight after three passengers' repeated trips to the bathroom aroused suspicion Sunday, the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, officials said."
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=14496785
"Oh my God! That guy pees too much! CALL THE PENTAGON!!!"
"Two fighter jets escorted a Los Angeles-to-New York American Airlines flight after three passengers' repeated trips to the bathroom aroused suspicion Sunday, the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, officials said."
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=14496785
Sep 11, 2011, 6:51 pm
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The two F-15 alert aircraft at Otis Air National Guard Base in Falmouth, Massachusetts were ordered to battle stations (seated in their aircraft, engines not yet started). At 8:46, just at the time the first tower was hit, Nash and Duffy were ordered to scramble (an order that begins with engine start-up, a process that takes about five minutes), and radar confirmed they were airborne by 8:53. By that time, however, the World Trade Center's North Tower had already been hit.
Sep 11, 2011, 6:54 pm
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Sep 11, 2011, 7:19 pm
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While the spokesperson can say this was a big nothing, I have never seen 3 people lock themselves in a bathroom on landing on AA 34, which I have been on dozens of times, or any other flight. So this was a little abnormal. And the crew felt it to be so, or we would not have seen fighter planes scrambled.
Sep 11, 2011, 7:22 pm
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I've got to say if the pilots and FAMs deemed the situation unworthy of an emergency, I'd be pretty unhappy if the USAF sent a rocket up their pipes merely because of some weirdness - even if it is the tenth anniversary of Sep 11. Panic in and of itself kills.
Sep 11, 2011, 7:27 pm
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Sep 11, 2011, 7:38 pm
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It was a man and a woman making out in the lav.
CALL THE FBI! CALL THE MARINES! CALL SUPER-CHICKEN!!!
Seriously...this paranoia is absolutely out of hand. We've become a nation of cowards.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...12/detail.html
Sep 11, 2011, 8:14 pm
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"Oh my God! That guy pees too much! CALL THE PENTAGON!!!"
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=14496785
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=14496785
Sep 11, 2011, 8:24 pm
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Sep 11, 2011, 9:45 pm
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+1 Which is why I always prefer an aisle seat so I don't have to crawl over anyone! Probably also why I don't sleep much even on TPAC.
Sep 11, 2011, 10:16 pm
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It's more absurd security theater nonsense.
It's more absurd security theater nonsense.
Sep 11, 2011, 10:38 pm
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Yes, but as in the 9/11/01 scenario, even if the planes were dispatched properly, would Bush or someone else in "authority" have given the order to shoot down a plane with passengers on board? The two plane strikes of the WTC occurred only 17 minutes apart, after the first plane struck, even if the 2nd were shot down, it would have been over NYC (Manhattan).
Sep 11, 2011, 10:57 pm
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Yes, but as in the 9/11/01 scenario, even if the planes were dispatched properly, would Bush or someone else in "authority" have given the order to shoot down a plane with passengers on board? The two plane strikes of the WTC occurred only 17 minutes apart, after the first plane struck, even if the 2nd were shot down, it would have been over NYC (Manhattan).
Sep 12, 2011, 12:10 am
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While the spokesperson can say this was a big nothing, I have never seen 3 people lock themselves in a bathroom on landing on AA 34, which I have been on dozens of times, or any other flight. So this was a little abnormal. And the crew felt it to be so, or we would not have seen fighter planes scrambled.
Sep 12, 2011, 6:10 am
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I watched the Bush interview last night, and he stated that made the decision to do just that and was prepared to give that order to the ANG.