Detroit Incident..A Close Call??

[Garry Russell]

Certainly not good

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americ ... 612.stm?ls

[Filonian]

Indeed Garry.


Just pleased all OK. Bit worrying for me, as my son is over there somewhere at the moment.

Graham

[Sl4yer]

Indeed. Good when these things fail, better when we catch them in advance.

Sounds like an amateur effort to me though, although the concealment seems quite professional. Who on earth would try to blow an airliner up 10 minutes before landing? Unpressurised, you'd cause some damage and inconvenience (and casualties close to yourself). At altitude, it could be quite different.

Hopefully (and even then we've still got problems) he was cleared at Lagos, and not Schiphol. If he got through security at Schiphol, we're probably lucky he made a balls of it.

James

[Garry Russell]

Even in failure it is a success for the terroists as they have caused fear, confusion and delays.
Again, air travel will not be quite the same because of this.

[DispatchDragon]

Garry

Your 100% correct , for those who thought airtravel had become more difficult -- wait till monday!

Leif

[airboatr]

ah,
and whats worse Garry is the media gets hold of it and whats to ramp it up to eleven on the dial.
ten minutes of the stuff and I don't want ever fly on the things again.

what gets me is . If I was on a plane and some terroist was attempting to cause harm to me and the pax , even the plane (which of course would harm to me)
I could kick the crap outa him

but when the media trys to scare the bejesus outa me I'm offered to change channel. .....

..... I oft give a hardy "ahhhh shut yer pie hole" before doing so .....

[speedbird591]

... for those who thought airtravel had become more difficult -- wait till monday!

It's started already, Leif.

Air Canada announced that passengers on flights to the US would not be able to leave their seats in the final hour of flight, nor have access to cabin luggage at that time.

I find air travel to the US an utterly miserable experience already.

Ian

[DispatchDragon]

AC are pretty damn fast getting sds implemented Ian

What isses me off is whats the point in having sd's if the media broadcasts them as soon as they happen.

from what we heard the gent on the SPL-DTW was "subdued" with fairly extreme prejudice by a couple of other passengers.

And for those who scoff at it being an amaturish half assed attempt -- may I suggest you try confining yourself in a sealed

tube with a 100 civilians who are not trained to deal with things like ohhhh cabin fires and see how you react -- prehaps

like the poor bastards on a certain BA 737 at Manchester ???? Sorry Im tired of NON aviation people drawing conclusions

from what they hear from the media-- Any threat to an aircraft inflight is an at of "terrorism" no matter how

inconsequential it may seem to you.......if you dont believe stand in any security check line at a US airport and say the

B word loudly


Leif

[airboatr]

really now

[simondix]

I suppose we are lucky it happened there. Ifit had happened here the passengers who stopped him would be up for assault. Also he would have been let free as we had infringed his human rights by stopping him from blowing an aircraft and its' passengers up.

One good thing. I bet his legs hurt.