|
Originally Posted by exerda
I wonder if it was something like this:
Female pax gets something completely harmless out of her carryon, like some eye drops. Some self-righteous security-at-any-cost nervous Nellie sees her and confronts the woman about it. You can take it from there. "You can't have lipstick!!!" "Get bent!" "Surrender it now! Flight Attendant!!!" <... kicking ensues> |
AP: Pax had Vaseline, a screwdriver, matches and a note referencing Al Qaeda.
Sounds like a party. |
Originally Posted by bollar
AP: Pax had Vaseline, a screwdriver, matches and a note referencing Al Qaeda.
Sounds like a party. I'm confident that the news report saying she had the first three items is fabricated (not by you - by the so-called "Journalists"), since none of those items is permitted from Heathrow today. |
Or was this an FA confrontation with a passenger escalated beyond the scope of reason? Seems to be conflicting reports on this matter.
There was a supposed confrontation on board. There may have been a banned item on board and they are now searching the luggage," said Phil Orlandella, spokesman at Boston's Logan International Airport. |
Originally Posted by bollar
AP: Pax had Vaseline, a screwdriver, matches and a note referencing Al Qaeda.
Sounds like a party. Officials say it started with a woman who became distraught. She was carrying vaseline, a screwdriver, matches and a note referencing al-Qaeda. It escalated when she and two other passengers had a confrontation with the flight crew, according to an airport spokesman. Sensationalist media is going to love this. :D |
A female passenger aboard United Flight 923 had Vaseline, a screw driver, matches and a note referencing al-Qaida, according to Phil Orlandella, spokesman for Boston's Logan International Airport. He said the flight was escorted to Boston by two fighter jets. The flight, with 182 passengers and 12 crew members landed safely, United spokesman Brandon Borrman said. Borrman said a female passenger was spotted engaging in some "suspicious" activity, but he could not immediately say what the activity was. |
Originally Posted by FWAAA
Perhaps the TSA should ban discussions of their moronic security changes of 10 Aug onboard airplanes just in case the participants can't debate things like civilized people.
|
Originally Posted by GUWonder
|
Apparently they're all being detained/held/etc. Since they're not going to be charged with anything, is there any reason that one of them can't claim false imprisonment and leave?
|
As moronic as the Department of Fatherland Security is, I gotta say, the chick had a screwdriver (which I think is prohibited), Vasaline (which is prohibited) and a note about al-Qaida. The story here isn't overreaction it's how all these prohibitions only inconvience law-abiding pax. She got all this crap on board how?
|
Originally Posted by GUWonder
Fighter jets escorted it. What a waste of government resources. What were the figher jets going to do? Fire a magic missile through the window and kill a non-hijacker? What were the FAMs doing? ;)
|
Now the obligatory live TV coverage of a runway search of all luggage from the plane by bomb-sniffing dogs.
:rolleyes: |
Originally Posted by JakiChan
As moronic as the Department of Fatherland Security is, I gotta say, the chick had a screwdriver (which I think is prohibited), Vasaline (which is prohibited) and a note about al-Qaida. The story here isn't overreaction it's how all these prohibitions only inconvience law-abiding pax. She got all this crap on board how?
After the story about the plane being taken back to the gate in BDL because of a liquid on board and now this.... We need to follow the regs if we like them or not or its going to be even a bigger inconvienence with your plane is late b/c some idiot decided to smuggle his bottle of water on. |
Originally Posted by JakiChan
As moronic as the Department of Fatherland Security is, I gotta say, the chick had a screwdriver (which I think is prohibited), Vasaline (which is prohibited) and a note about al-Qaida. The story here isn't overreaction it's how all these prohibitions only inconvience law-abiding pax. She got all this crap on board how?
|
Originally Posted by JakiChan
As moronic as the Department of Fatherland Security is, I gotta say, the chick had a screwdriver (which I think is prohibited), Vasaline (which is prohibited) and a note about al-Qaida. The story here isn't overreaction it's how all these prohibitions only inconvience law-abiding pax. She got all this crap on board how?
|
| All times are GMT -6. The time now is 5:44 am. |
This site is owned, operated, and maintained by MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. Copyright © 2026 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks are the property of their respective owners.