UA flight diverted
Aug 16, 2006 | 9:39 am
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WBUR now says it was a 62-year-old woman who was claustrophic and disruptive. No note, no screwdriver and no lotion/vasiline.
She must have been really disruptive to have the flight diverted!!!
She must have been really disruptive to have the flight diverted!!!
Aug 16, 2006 | 9:39 am
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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? 
Aug 16, 2006 | 9:40 am
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Originally Posted by GUWonder
Even if she had a note about Al-Qaeda, what does it matter. It's not like that note would likely have ever been found if she was a terrorist, which she clearly must not have been except to the people sitting next to her and/or the FA.
The other story is that she was claustrophobic and went batty due to encroachment into her "space".
The other story is that she was claustrophobic and went batty due to encroachment into her "space".
Didn't they have a diversion of a UA p.s. flight last year when a Japanese gentleman wrote something in his notebook about "bomb" and had an iPod and some lip balm in his bag?
Aug 16, 2006 | 9:40 am
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Originally Posted by UMassCanuck07
Good for you! I just hope someone really gives it to you when your plane is diverted because you can't handle following the rules.
I believe it was either KL or LH that said if a PAX is caught with stuff, the plane will be diverted and the cost will be assessed to the PAX. I hope this happens to you and the rest of the morons on here who want to be all Thoreau-like.
I just hope someone really gives it to you when your plane is diverted because you can't handle following the rules.I believe it was either KL or LH that said if a PAX is caught with stuff, the plane will be diverted and the cost will be assessed to the PAX. I hope this happens to you and the rest of the morons on here who want to be all Thoreau-like.
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Aug 16, 2006 | 9:41 am
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Originally Posted by bollar
This actually sounds like what some posters here have threatened to do as an act of civil disobediance.
Just look at the posts in this thread between "will smuggle water" and "must follow the rules". Such a conversation on board could easily lead to an "altercation". People who argue about policies are frequently classified as distraught.
Someone will have to explain how she got those items on board or how the media got it so wrong.
Aug 16, 2006 | 9:41 am
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Originally Posted by UMassCanuck07
I believe it was either KL or LH that said if a PAX is caught with stuff, the plane will be diverted and the cost will be assessed to the PAX. I hope this happens to you and the rest of the morons on here who want to be all Thoreau-like.
Aug 16, 2006 | 9:42 am
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Originally Posted by Wally Bird
You know this for a fact ? All I've seen is a quote from an unidentified "official" from an unnamed agency. Remember how "officials" immediately determined that guy in Houston with worn-out shoes and an alarm radio was a terrist ? I'll wait, and make a small wager that she actually had none of the above.
Aug 16, 2006 | 9:48 am
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AP now reporting BOS airport officials saying that there was no note or any of the other mentioned items (WBUR)
how the hell does the media turn a claustrophic and disruptive PAX into one having a screwdriver, vaseline and an AQ note?
how the hell does the media turn a claustrophic and disruptive PAX into one having a screwdriver, vaseline and an AQ note?
Aug 16, 2006 | 9:48 am
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The reporter who initially crafted the 'list' of banned items this passenger had from their own imagination needs to be tossed under a bus...that's a good start for the day. We can work on the TSA after that.
Is it any wonder I can't stand to go anywhere near the news these days....not for it being bad, just because it's overwraught with stupid ignorant sensationalism.
Edward R Morrow would not be amused.
Is it any wonder I can't stand to go anywhere near the news these days....not for it being bad, just because it's overwraught with stupid ignorant sensationalism.
Edward R Morrow would not be amused.
Aug 16, 2006 | 9:48 am
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Originally Posted by UMassCanuck07
Good for you! I just hope someone really gives it to you when your plane is diverted because you can't handle following the rules.
I believe it was either KL or LH that said if a PAX is caught with stuff, the plane will be diverted and the cost will be assessed to the PAX. I hope this happens to you and the rest of the morons on here who want to be all Thoreau-like.
I just hope someone really gives it to you when your plane is diverted because you can't handle following the rules.I believe it was either KL or LH that said if a PAX is caught with stuff, the plane will be diverted and the cost will be assessed to the PAX. I hope this happens to you and the rest of the morons on here who want to be all Thoreau-like.
Not directed to anyone in particular:
Latest news is there was no screwdriver, no vaseline, no al-Qaeda note. just a distraught pax. Just yet another overreaction by the idiots in charge.
Aug 16, 2006 | 9:49 am
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Originally Posted by Wally Bird
....All I've seen is a quote from an unidentified "official" from an unnamed agency.... I'll wait, and make a small wager that she actually had none of the above.
Ding Ding Ding We Have A Winner!!! You called it Wally Bird. Congratulations! ^
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Aug 16, 2006 | 9:50 am
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Originally Posted by planeluvr
My question is why did the pilot land in BOS if there was a problem?
BOS also has MX and crew facilities for UA.
Aug 16, 2006 | 9:52 am
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Originally Posted by FWAAA
Latest news is there was no screwdriver, no vaseline, no al-Qaeda note. just a distraught pax. Just yet another overreaction by the idiots in charge.