CANCELLED FLIGHT-VERY SCARY!

Read entire story, we should be very, very concerned about this! And to think that Fox News was the only channel that reported this. They may be "politically incorrect", but at least they had the courage to report it.

In my opinion, the Muslims are all getting very brave now. Read Tedd Petruna's story below. Can you imagine, our own news media now are so politically correct that they are afraid to report that these were all Muslims? Unbelievable. Thank God for people like Tedd Petruna. Tedd Petruna is a diver at the NBL (Neutral Buoyancy Lab) facility at NASA Houston .. Tedd happened to be on the AirTran Flight 297, from Atlanta to Houston . Here's his report :

One week ago, I went to Ohio on business and to see my father. On Tuesday, the 17th, I returned home. If you read the papers the 18th you may have seen a blurb about where an Air Tran flight was canceled from Atlanta to Houston due to a man who refused to get off of his cell phone before take- off.. The story was only on Fox News. That was NOT what really happened.

I was seated in 1st class coming home. Eleven Muslim men got on the plane in full Muslim attire. Two of them sat in 1st class and the rest seated themselves throughout the plane, in coach class, all the way to the back. As the plane taxied out to the runway, the stewardesses gave the safety spiel that we are all so familiar with.

At that time, one of the men in 1st class, got on his cell and called one of his companions back in coach. He proceeded to talk on the phone in Arabic very loudly and very, very aggressively. This activity took the 1st stewardess out of action for she repeatedly told the man that cell phones were not permitted at that time.

He ignored her as if she were not there. The man, who answered the phone back in the coach section, did the same and this took out the 2nd stewardess. Further back in the plane, at the same time, two younger Muslims, one in the back on the aisle, and one sitting in front of him by the window, began to show footage of a porno video they had taped the night before. They were very loud about it.

The 3rd stewardess informed the two men that they were not to have any electronic devices on at this time. One of the men said "shut up infidel dog!" The stewardess attempted to take the camcorder and the Muslim began to scream in her face in Arabic.

At that exact moment, all eleven of the men got up and started to walk throughout the cabin. I guess that because of the noise, the flight crew must have decided that there was something amiss and changed the plane's directions to head back to the terminal.

The commotion and noise was reaching a feverish pitch, and at this point I had had enough! I got up and started towards the back of 1st class when I heard a voice behind me from another Texan twice my size, say, "I got your back." Then I grabbed the man, who had been on the cell phone, by the arm and said, "You WILL sit down in your seat or you WILL be thrown from this plane!"

As I "led" him around me to take his seat, the fellow Texan grabbed him by the back of his neck and his waist and headed him back to his seat. I then grabbed the 2nd man and said, "You WILL do the same!"

He protested loudly, but my adrenaline was flowing now and he was going to go also. Just as I escorted him forward, the plane stopped, the doors opened and three TSA agents and four police officers entered the cabin. Myself and my new Texas friend were told to cease and desist for they had the situation under control.

I was quite happy to oblige, actually. There was still some sort of commotion in the back, but within moments, all eleven Muslim men were escorted off the plane. The TSA agents then had their luggage unloaded. We talked about the occurrence and were in disbelief that it had happened.

Then suddenly, the door opened again and in walked all eleven Muslim men! Stone faced, eyes front and robotic, (the only way I can describe it) and they were reseated. The stewardess from the back had been in tears and when she saw the men, she was having NONE of it!

Since I was up front, I heard and saw the whole ordeal. She told the TSA agents that there was NO WAY she was staying on the plane with the Muslim men. The agent told her that they had searched the men and were going through their luggage with a fine tooth comb. However, nothing had been found and that the men were allowed to proceed on to Houston.

The captain and co-captain came out of the cockpit and told the agent, "We and our crew will not fly this plane!" After a word or two, the entire crew, luggage in tow, left the plane. Five minutes later, the cabin door opened again and a whole new crew walked on. Again, this was where I had had enough! I got up and asked the TSA agent, What the hell is going on?

I was told to take my seat. The airlines and TSA were sorry for the delay and we would be home shortly. I said, "I'm getting off this plane". The stewardess sternly told me that she could not allow me to get off. Now I'm really mad! I said, "I am a grown man who bought this ticket, whose time is mine, with a family at home, and I am going through that door, or I'm going through that door with you under my arm, but I AM going through that door!"

And then I heard a voice behind me say, "So am I!" Then everyone behind us started to get up and say the same thing. Within two minutes, I was walking off that plane where I was met by more TSA agents, who asked me to write a statement about the incident.

I had five hours to kill at this point waiting for the next flight to Houston , so why the hell not give them my statement. Due to the amount of people who got off that flight, it was canceled. I was supposed to be in Houston at 6 PM, but I finally got there at 12:30 AM.

If you don't believe this, look up the date and then Flight 297 from Atlanta to Houston.

If this wasn't a terrorism dry run, I don't know what is. The terrorists wanted to see how TSA would handle it, how the crew would handle t, and how the passengers would handle it. I'm telling this to you because I want you to know. The threat IS real. I saw it with my own eyes."

I believe it completely as well.

I had to fly the night of of the Paris attack, and it was a late flight. I was up watching movie on my iPad, but the lights were down, and most people were dozing.

A guy who looked of middle eastern extraction got up, and pulled something from the overhead, faced the front of the plane, and began fiddling with something under his jacket.

With him facing the front, nobody in back of him could see what he was doing, and nobody in front could see unless they turned around.

He was dressed in a suit, and was likely a businessman for all I know, but I can tell you, I kept an eye on him. Yeah. I “profiled”.

“Profiling” is non-PC-Correct for “common sense”.

Tedd Petruna and AirTran Flight 297 from Atlanta to Houston

A viral message attributed to an AirTran Airways passenger named Tedd Petruna purports to be an eyewitness account of what is described as an Islamic terrorist “dry run” aboard AirTran Flight 297 from Atlanta to Houston on November 17, 2009. The airline says no such incident took place.

Description: Forwarded email / Viral text
Circulating since: Nov. 2009
Status: False (see details below)

Example:
Email text contributed by Tom S., Dec.

1, 2009:

FW: ENOUGH OF THIS ! THE REAL STORY WHY THE FLIGHT WAS CANCELLED ON 11-17, JIHADI DRY RUN ????

Fw: AIRLINE TRAVEL INEPTITUDE, INCOMPETENCE & ARROGANCE

I, Gene Hackemack, received this email from my good friend Tedd Petruna, a diver at the NBL facility [Neutral Buoyancy Lab], at NASA Houston, whom I used to work with. Tedd happened to be on this same Flt. 297, Atlanta to Houston.

In my opinion, the muslims are all getting very brave now, since they have one of their own in the white house...... read Tedd’s story below.

Analysis: The so-called “eyewitness” who wrote this viral email wasn’t even on the plane, according to AirTran officials quoted in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Dec. 5, 2009. Tedd J. Petruna was booked on Flight 297, airline records show, but his connecting flight from Akron arrived too late for him to actually board the Houston-bound plane.

AirTran had previously taken issue with many of the specifics of Petruna’s self-aggrandizing account, which the company describes as “an urban legend.” To be sure, the email contains no shortage of melodrama.

Would a real Muslim terrorist â€” as opposed to, say, one you might see depicted in a Hollywood action picture, or a comic book â€” actually yell “Shut up, infidel dog!” at a flight attendant?

More to the point, would they do so during what is supposed to be an undercover “terrorist dry run”?

You be the judge.

Update #1: More eyewitness testimony

Laura Armstrong of the Marietta Daily Journal provided two new pieces of information in her Dec. 6, 2009 column, “The Curious Case of Air Tran Flight 297.”

First, she spoke to Tedd Petruna, who, though he admits “taking artistic license with a couple of points,” claims he was, in fact, on the plane and has a boarding pass to prove it.

Second, Armstrong spoke to another passenger on Flight 297, security expert Brent C. Brown, who backs up some, but not all, of Petruna’s account, including the allegation that the “suspicious men” were belligerent and refused to sit down, creating tension and “chaos” aboard the plane. According to Armstrong, Brown described the passengers who chose to get off the plane when it returned to the gate as “traumatized.” (See video of Brown answering questions about the incident via WSB-TV in Atlanta.)

Brown’s observations conflict with certain aspects of the airline’s version of events, while confirming several of the claims of another (partial) eyewitness, Dr. Keith Robinson, a chaplain from Texas. Robinson wasn’t yet aboard the flight when the fracas occurred, but experienced its aftermath when he boarded after the plane returned to the gate. He noted a considerable degree of agitation and stress among the deboarding crew and passengers, as well as those who stayed on the flight, which he took as an indication that something more serious had happened than the airline admits.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/religion/a/flight_297_atlanta_to_houston.htm

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