AA34 LAX-JFK incident 11 Sep 2011
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So we had a case of a couple joining the Mile High club and panic ensued. I guess you could call this a truly anticlimactic incident - at least for a while.
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In its 2004 report, the commission praised front-line aviation officials. But it then thoroughly dismantled the accounts of senior government officials, who in the weeks after Sept. 11, and for more than a year afterward, assured the public that fighter pilots had been in hot pursuit of the suicidal hijackers. During these chases, according to accounts from Vice President Dick Cheney, the F.A.A. and the Defense Department, the pilots were described as ready to carry out a wrenching order from President George W. Bush to shoot down airliners.
The commission discovered that little of that was true: of the four flights, military commanders had nine minutes’ notice on one before it flew into the World Trade Center, and did not learn the other three had been hijacked until after they had crashed. Military commanders, given an order outside the chain of command to shoot down hijacked airliners, did not pass it along to the fighter pilots, but instructed them instead to identify the tail numbers of any suspected rogue planes. That turned out to be a prudent call because by then, there were no longer hijackers in the air for them to shoot.
The newly published multimedia document spells out precisely how the recordings contradicted the accounts of the senior officials.
The commission discovered that little of that was true: of the four flights, military commanders had nine minutes’ notice on one before it flew into the World Trade Center, and did not learn the other three had been hijacked until after they had crashed. Military commanders, given an order outside the chain of command to shoot down hijacked airliners, did not pass it along to the fighter pilots, but instructed them instead to identify the tail numbers of any suspected rogue planes. That turned out to be a prudent call because by then, there were no longer hijackers in the air for them to shoot.
The newly published multimedia document spells out precisely how the recordings contradicted the accounts of the senior officials.
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The details are out on this one:
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
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
Although we went to NYC for the 9/11 events, and flew back LGA-DFW-SJC last night (on 9/11) and we did see strange events - each of the flights actually departed and arrived early. And this was AA. Seems suspicious to me.
Cheers.
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The answer, per your links, is clearly yes.
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Another stupid overreaction to a non-event.
People use the lav. Sometimes more than once. Get over it or get counseling.
The Boogeyman strikes again!
People use the lav. Sometimes more than once. Get over it or get counseling.
The Boogeyman strikes again!
Last edited by Spiff; Sep 12, 2011 at 11:39 am