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Delta Jet Lands in Ore. With "Suspicious Items" (Box Cutters)
CBS News ^ | 11/3/2010 | CBS

Posted on 11/03/2010 8:48:01 PM PDT by Velveeta

Report of Threatening Note and Box Cutters Found on Flight From Tokyo

A passenger plane has landed in Portland, Ore., after an onboard threat involving suspicious items was reported.

An official told CBS News there was a report of a threatening note and box cutters on board Delta Flight 90, a regularly-scheduled flight from Narita Airport in Tokyo.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: boxcutters; delta; flt90; isolatedincidents; terrorism; tokyo; wot
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To: AmericanInTokyo; Cindy
Delta

Interesting choice of airlines. Delta, the symbol for "change".

21 posted on 11/04/2010 12:28:22 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: Velveeta

I know it’s just me, but I happen to think that airplanes would be safer if ~everybody~ on board had a knife (or insert weapon here).

The planes on 9/11 weren’t hijacked because there were too many weapons on those planes. They were hijacked because there were too FEW weapons on those planes.

If it were up to me, I’d put little bats ...like those bat-night bats you get at baseball games, in the seat-back pockets of every airplane. About the size of a fish kerbanger. Give those things to two hundred and fifty passengers on a 757 and I can pretty much guarantee that ~that~ plane will not be hijacked and used as a missile.


22 posted on 11/04/2010 12:39:21 AM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Ramius

“I know it’s just me, but I happen to think that airplanes would be safer if ~everybody~ on board had a knife (or insert weapon here).”

You’ll laugh, but when I fly (not often) I always carry a couple of verrrrry sharp pencils with me. Husband does the same. A very sharp pencil will go right into something ... soft.


23 posted on 11/04/2010 12:54:22 AM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (March 2010: Congress shoved Obamacare down our throats. November 2010: We will shove it back!)
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To: Ezekiel

Oh, pullllease. Enough with it already. This is not credible intelligence analysis.


24 posted on 11/04/2010 12:57:41 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (We must be humble in victory, and GET TO WORK RIGHT AWAY while we have the anti-Obama Momentum)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

Aim for the wind pipe!


25 posted on 11/04/2010 2:05:13 AM PDT by Global2010 (I am experiencing a premature election Joy. Joy To the World da da da da....)
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To: AmericanInTokyo; 444Flyer; Armaggedon
Yipes. It was a cynical comment, not intended as "credible intelligence analysis". I am cynical because Obama and his administration are evil and wacko and would be happy to watch America go down - merely for the thrill of "change", and would sympathize with jihadis while paying lip service to defense of America. So because a Delta is the symbol for Change - Obama's key buzzword - it has an auspicious aura to it. Same reason that with Obama, even a bad overused Slurpee joke becomes suspect.

People can make of it what they will. I'll keep posting what I post. I just won't post those comments to you though, oops.

26 posted on 11/04/2010 2:13:00 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: Global2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UHNTkVqWpQ


27 posted on 11/04/2010 7:15:17 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Clem Hussein Kadiddlehopper would be a vast improvement.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

It didn’t stream for me. Is there any new information in the report?


28 posted on 11/04/2010 8:27:39 AM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Global2010

That’s what I’ve always thought. (Did you ever see the movie “Red Eye”?) But even a hit to a hand, leg, whatever you could reach, could be a good distraction to an attacker.


29 posted on 11/04/2010 10:08:16 AM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (March 2010: Congress shoved Obamacare down our throats. November 2010: We will shove it back!)
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To: Velveeta
I did not know it at the time, but I had a shotgun shell in a small pocket of my backpack. I got through security at both airports on a round-trip before finding it a week after the trip. I can only imagine what would've happened had it been found. I barely made it to the airport for the flight out, and would've been up a creek for missing a meeting if I had missed that flight. I got lucky as heck.

(Thanks again to my guardian angel. He/she must get overtime pay, LOL.)

30 posted on 11/04/2010 5:14:28 PM PDT by Teacher317 (really?)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

I always fly now with a good, strong piece of rope or shoelaces in pocket, just in case.


31 posted on 11/04/2010 5:58:25 PM PDT by conductor john (from jersey)
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To: Teacher317

You would have been up a creek for sure.
I like a happy ending. :-)


32 posted on 11/04/2010 6:03:57 PM PDT by Velveeta
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