Air Force fighter jets scrambled after disturbance on American Airlines flight

Guardian ^ | 19 May 2017

[Mark17]

Muzzies don’t knit, do they? /s

I don't think muzzies are capable of doing anything, that requires a modicum of skill.

[generally]

Assessed means they checked his luggage and the toothpaste tube was less than 2 oz. Therefore he was ok to board, unlike my elderly mother who had a 6 oz. tube of toothpaste which caused the TSA to go into full alert mode.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Thats exactly what they are there for.

[Freedom56v2]

What does “was assessed” mean?

The larger question is who is doing the assessing? And what exactly do they assess?

Maybe it means that they suspect he is a muzzie, and since we live in a PC world, they didn’t want to offend muzzies, so they probably didn’t do anything. But, they probably DID do a strip search on granny. You know, granny is more dangerous than a Middle East muzzie. /S

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What does “breached” security mean??? IF I go on a flight, I get in the security line as directed...my spouse has had to explain certain tools, etc. from carry-on bags...

How doe someone “breach” security and then get to fly???

[Yaelle]

Why didn’t they beat him senseless and drag him from the plane? Ohhh, he’s a MUSLIM.....

Man, if Muhamed Atta could get the devil to reconstitute him, he could do it all again today. Think about that.

[Veto!]

What could a full toothpaste tube contain......how bizarre

[Mark17]

What does “breached” security mean??? IF I go on a flight, I get in the security line as directed...my spouse has had to explain certain tools, etc. from carry-on bags...

How doe someone “breach” security and then get to fly???

I have no idea what breaching security means. I have no idea what asssessing mean, and no idea why the dirt bag was allowed to fly, except to say he probably has ROP protection. But again, granny gets strip searched, while the dirt bag walks.

[Organic Panic]

All are sacrificed on the alter of PC.

[cpdiii]

“You are an airline passenger en route to your destination. You look out the window and see fighters escorting your aircraft. To put it politely, they are not there for YOUR safety.”

Good post. You are one of the few that understand why they are their. They can do absolutely nothing to resolve a problem in the aircraft. They are there to shoot you down if the Aircraft is taken over an presents a danger.

However no aircraft will be taken over by hostiles after 9-11. Passengers today know that hostiles will be their death and as such will fight the hostiles and contain them or kill them. I prefer the latter.

9-11 was successful because it was a new and unique battle plan by the bad guys. In the past it made absolute sense to acquiesce to demands as one assumed the hijackers did not want to die. The new model is different. We must assume they are willing to die thus each and ever person on board has a primal instinct to survive and will attack the hijackers.

[Vendome]

[Lazamataz]

Why are fighter jets scrambled in these circumstances? Are they going to shoot down the plane if they think it will crash into a residential area?

No. Absolutely not.

They will shoot down the plane if they think it will crash into a strategic or economic asset.

[HKMk23]

“Are they going to shoot down the plane if they think it will crash ...?”

Absolutely.

Which oughta be every red-blooded American’s impetus to beat the ever-loving bejeezus outta ANYONE who gets mouthy and outta hand on an airline flight. Somebody goes berserk like that it becomes a matter of life-and-death for everyone aboard that they get subdued in short order.

If passengers and flight crew fail to subdue or outright kill an aggressive, hostile passenger, and that nutbar gets into the cockpit, the USAF will take over from there and guaran-damn-tee that entire aircraft goes SPLASH into the broad, blue Pacific, in the greater interest of national security.

I’d assess that your odds of survival are FAR better ganging up with a horde of other passengers and putting the beat-down on the crazy person. The Air Force knows so.

[PlateOfShrimp]

I bet he had been in a Turkish prison and wanted to discuss this with the pilot, along with gladiator movies.

[Pollster1]

Surely you can’t be serious.

[xp38]

Yes the model changed very quickly on 9/11. Flight 93 was already in the new era.

[Elsie]

You look out the window and see fighters escorting your aircraft.

[BwanaNdege]

Why are fighter jets scrambled in these circumstances? Are they going to shoot down the plane if they think it will crash into a residential area? I’ve never understood the purpose, if anyone knows.

[Elsie]

And they can also, if need be, shoot down the commercial airplane.

A Mini-Puff could put a couple of rounds into the perps indicated location.

It would have a smaller collateral damage impact than taking out the whole plane.

A few bullet sized holes in the aircraft will NOT make it explode from air pressure!

[raybbr]

Uskanil is being held at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu. His visa has been canceled.

Oh, that will show him.

[eartick]

I’m calling it now: islam and its idiocy and evil. Kill it now. Dismember this POS in public and set an example that islam will not be tolerated.

Do not forget about the TSA agent(s) that let this pos trash board. They are complicit as well and need to be strung up along side without a due process of the law.

A message needs to be sent and sent that ALL may hear. NO EFFIN MORE.