They would probably be hailed as heros. ;)

I'd buy them beers/contribute to their legal expenses. :D

How embarrassing for the woman, not to mention what the fare for the diversion is going to cost her. I can't wait until some FTer on that flight gives us the dirt.

I totaly agree. From watching Fox news this morning when they had a aviation expert who said that more than likely that the woman on board had no banned items. The host of the show got defensive immediatly saying we dont know that yet. The aviation expert then proceded to say that the only reason people were told that she had the banned items was to create a media event out of this to where the host got obviously irritated on air and ended the segment,

I would actually hope that it would go to court. I would love to see the reasoning for the government to deploy fighter jets and land the plane because of a hysterical, claustrophobic 59-year old woman.

There's your problem... :p

I agree that the media is handling these things awfully. Look at the "cell phone terrorists"; they were all over the news when arrested, with all the anchors and commentators talking about how cell phones are used in making IEDs. When the terorrism charges vanished, I didn't see the major news outlets running stories at all. :(

I don't know if anyone else caught it, but Headline News just had on a psychologist who said pretty much the same thing... the info-babe had pretty much the same reaction as above. It was easy to see that she wasn't happy with the doc's rational explanation of the event and kept prodding him to "what if" scenarios that he refused to answer saying "that was not the case here...". They also did not re-announce who he was, as they usually do, at the end of the segment. I was listening for it b/c I wanted to contact him to thank him for being the ONE voice of reason I've heard so far.

It was an excellent segment!

The jets were there to shoot down the plane before any bomb could be detonated, of course. Better safe than sorry.


EDIT: This post was meant to convey irony and was not inteded as a serious comment. "Better safe than sorry" was the punchline. Not as funny if you have to explain it. :rolleyes:

Why wait?

Let's shoot down a few planes 'just in case'.

"Better safe than sorry!"

Proof positive the media is out of control and is just on a hunt for sensationalism. I'm all for the 1st Amendment and don't want the government touching them, but perhaps it's time the People speak up and try to get some sanity back into news reporting. They have turned journalism into a giant reality show, and it's both disgusting and counterproductive. No wonder so many Sheeple think the way they do, when this type of hogwash is their source of facts.

Is the segment available online? I want to fire off a nasty gram to Fox, and a compliment to the aviation expert, but I would like to see the segment before I comment on it.

What are you talking about? :rolleyes:

I hope the OP was being facetious with the comment...but the requisite emoticon was missing.

Can't be serious. :D

I hope you are being sarcastic. You are saying...."Let's blow them up before they blow themselves up?" The planes are there only to blow them up if they are heading into a building etc.

Yeah! That'll learn em' :p