Just heard a plane has been turned back from the USA and escourted all the way back to Amsterdamn.
Thats all the news have at present
Thats all the news have at present
Just shows how news can be mixed up, it said on the radio it was going to the USA, not that it was a USA plane.
I hope they have caught someone.
I hope they have caught someone.
Always have to be careful when the reports are as sketchy as this one is at the moment. Most airlines are taking a no risk policy which is quite right. There might be something in this (hope not) or it might be a false alarm.
I always remember the comments on the BBC about Jean Charles de Menezes in London last year and then it turns out he was an innocent
victim of a heightened security situation.
Jon B
I always remember the comments on the BBC about Jean Charles de Menezes in London last year and then it turns out he was an innocent
victim of a heightened security situation.
Jon B
I always remember the comments on the BBC about Jean Charles de Menezes in London last year and then it turns out he was an innocent
victim of a heightened security situation.
Jon B
Or the woman on the BOS flight last week who, it turns out, did not actually have any vaseline or screwdirver as the news first reported.[:0]
VS.
I always enjoy watching threads such as this, (and sadly worse) developing on PPRUNE:
1. Flurry of posts with sketchy news reports.
2. Links posted to the news websites
3. Posts "cutted and pasted" from the news websites.
4. Slagging off inaccuracies in the news reports
5. Defence of fluid nature of the facts at the start of incident.
6. Slagging off inaccuracies in the news reports.
7. "I'm not one to speculate.... but here's my definitive answer to what happened"
8. "Stop specualting, we don't know the facts! But this is what i think happened"
9. Slagging off inaccuracies in the news reports.
10. Slagging off of the speculators.
11. Slagging off of the 'Journos'
12. Critism of a posters incorrect use of capitalisation and punctuation.
and so it degenerates.
Whilst hightened security and the willingness of aircrew to do something to make the situation safe is a good thing. It is also worrying that (apparently) Sky Marshals were on board and decided that the people were acting suspiciously because they were passing mobile phones around after take off.
As someone on PPRUNe pointed out, perhaps members of the possibly Indian extended family, in a languge foriegn to the Sky Marshalls were all asking Dad to show them how to turn their phones off, because they'd forgotten.
Also yet again air force fighters were scrambled to intercept, and I really really really don't see what good that can do except increase the risk of an accident happening.
1. Flurry of posts with sketchy news reports.
2. Links posted to the news websites
3. Posts "cutted and pasted" from the news websites.
4. Slagging off inaccuracies in the news reports
5. Defence of fluid nature of the facts at the start of incident.
6. Slagging off inaccuracies in the news reports.
7. "I'm not one to speculate.... but here's my definitive answer to what happened"
8. "Stop specualting, we don't know the facts! But this is what i think happened"
9. Slagging off inaccuracies in the news reports.
10. Slagging off of the speculators.
11. Slagging off of the 'Journos'
12. Critism of a posters incorrect use of capitalisation and punctuation.
and so it degenerates.
Whilst hightened security and the willingness of aircrew to do something to make the situation safe is a good thing. It is also worrying that (apparently) Sky Marshals were on board and decided that the people were acting suspiciously because they were passing mobile phones around after take off.
As someone on PPRUNe pointed out, perhaps members of the possibly Indian extended family, in a languge foriegn to the Sky Marshalls were all asking Dad to show them how to turn their phones off, because they'd forgotten.
Also yet again air force fighters were scrambled to intercept, and I really really really don't see what good that can do except increase the risk of an accident happening.
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