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Fighter Jets Scrambled To Passenger Plane
Sky News ^
Posted on 05/24/2013 6:22:37 AM PDT by UKrepublican
The airline has confirmed it is for security reasons. There are understood to be 297 passengers on board.
The plane was heading west towards Manchester when it was suddenly re-routed near York and headed back out to the North Sea, before travelling south to Stansted.
It is believed to have now landed at the airport.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alteredtitle; manchester; pakistan; pockeestahn; raf; stansted; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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To: don-o
Just had earlier today a BA flight from London to Oslo doing an emergency landing this morning. Was the breaking news story when I got up this morning...
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posted on
05/24/2013 6:56:11 AM PDT
by
Eurotwit
To: Eurotwit
Engines taken out by a flock of birds on that one, plane had to land with damaged engines.
To: UKrepublican
Two arrests have been made.
Two men arrested on ‘suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft’...
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posted on
05/24/2013 7:08:16 AM PDT
by
seeker41
(Take back your country before it is too late-STOP islamic expansion in the USA remove zero)
To: seeker41
Sky News reporting ‘sources’ as saying ‘not terrorist incident’.
Drunk?.
To: Jeff Head
Friends of the President.
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posted on
05/24/2013 7:23:47 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: CMB_polarization
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posted on
05/24/2013 7:31:08 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
To: the scotsman
Those weren’t birds...they were winged, Muslim demon-spawn
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posted on
05/24/2013 7:32:42 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
To: stuartcr
I’m guessing they were Pakistani?
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posted on
05/24/2013 7:38:28 AM PDT
by
txhurl
To: HawkHogan
Throw them into the plane’s engine.
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posted on
05/24/2013 7:39:15 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
To: UKrepublican
The leaders in the UK are so anxious to say, "It is not ISlamic Terror," that it is sickening. Same with the Obama administration.
They know better. Heck, anyone watching knows better.
Just like they were so fast to try and say that the soldier who was so horricially killed by the two Islamics on the street the other day, when they ran him down with their car, and then got out and attacked him with a machette and a meat cleaver, and de-capitatied him there in broad daylight, shouting, "Allah Ackbar," were not islamic teror related.
Well that's just pure, unadulterated Bravo Sierra.
Islamic Terror on a street in England
Islamic Terror in Boston
Islamic Terror attacks US in Benghazi
Over the last 30 years these types of attacks have been ongoing. They all have one thing in common...you tell me what that is:
- In 1968, Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by a Muslim male.
- In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, terrorists attacked the Isreali athlete's dorms. In all, eleven Israeli atheltes were massacred by Muslim male terrorists.
- In 1972 Pan Am 747 was hijacked and eventually diverted to Cairo where a fuse was lit on final approach and it was blown up shortly after landing by Muslim males.
- In 1973 Pan Am 707 was destroyed in Rome , with 33 people killed, when it was attacked with grenades by Muslim males.
- In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by Muslim males
- In the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped and murdered in Lebanon by Muslim males.
- In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up, killing 241 Americans, and it was done by Muslim males.
- In 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by Muslim males.
- In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by Muslim males.
- In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed over Scotland, killing 259 on board and 11 on the ground. This act of terror was planned and carried out by Muslim males.
- In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed for the first time, killing 6 and injuring over 1,000...by Muslim males.
- In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim males.
- In 2011, on 911, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as weapons to crash into and take down the World Trade Centers Towers. Another was used to attack and crash into the Pentagon. The third was in the process of being re-claimed by the passengers when the terrorists flew it into the ground. Thousands of people were killed that day, all of them by Muslim males.
- In 2002-2012, the United States fights a war in Afghanistan against Muslim males.
- In 2002, reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and beheaded by...yes, Muslim males.
- In July, 2002 a shooting at LAX international Airport killed two people and injured five others. It was committed by a Muslim Male, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet.
- In October 2002, beltway snipers killed 17 and wounded five. The shooters? Yes, more Muslim males, John Mohammed and Malik Malvo
- In 2003-2009, the US fights a war in Iraq to topple a tyranical regime and defeat a fundamentalist Islamic/Al Quida insurgency, made up of Muslem males.
- In March, 2003, on the eve of battle for Iraq, a grenade attack was conducted on the US HQ killing two officers and wounding 14 others. A Muslim male, Sgt. Hasan Akbar, conducted the attack.
- In March, 2006, a rampaging SUV at Chapil Hill, NC, on the Univ. Campus injured nine. Miracuuously no one was killed. Who did it? Mohammed Taheri-azar, a muslim male
- In August, 2006, in San Francisco, another SUV rampage kills one and injurs nineteen. The perp? A musilm male named Omid Azeez Popal.
- In February, 2007, a shooter kills four and wounds five at the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City. The shooter? Sulejman Talovic, another Muslim male.
- In October, 2007, an attack on Homestead Air Froce Base in Florida was stopped at the front gate by military police. The would be terrorist was Tahmeed Ahmad, another Muslim male.
- In November, 2008, Jewish students on the University of Berkley campus were singeld out for killing by a Muslim male, Husam Zakharia, who beat two students to death with his fists.
- In June 2009, a military recruiting station in Little Rock, AR was attacked by a shooter with an assault rifle. One solider was killed an another injured by Abdulhakim Muhammad, a Muslim male.
- On November 5, 2009, a U.S. Army officer went on a shooting rampage against other soliders, killing 29 and wounding 13. Major Nidal Hasan, a Muslim male, who was under investigation for his own ties to Al Quida operatives, conducted the attack shouting, "Allah Akbar!"
To: Jeff Head
Not in America. More likely nuns.
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posted on
05/24/2013 8:04:35 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: don-o
No, if he had engine problems, they wouldn’t make him fly all the way from near York back down south to Stansted.
That’s where they escort planes if they have any security concerns about a flight, they have facilities to deal with everything from stroppy drunks to terrorists.
To: the scotsman
Damn Muslim birds!!! those Islamist birds are taking over the country!!!
To: Jeff Head
Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian Christian with Jordanian citizenship.
The 1972 PanAm 747 was hijacked on a flight from Hong Kong to Saigon by a North Vietnamese sympathizer. The highjack to Cairo was 1970.
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posted on
05/24/2013 8:19:36 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
To: the scotsman
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posted on
05/24/2013 8:38:46 AM PDT
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
To: RummyChick
Pilots get confused and enter the wrong codes. Happens frequently.
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posted on
05/24/2013 8:44:42 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
To: UKrepublican
What is going on here? FOX blipped in first thing that the Paki plane was being chased by fighters. Seem to have dropped this plane. Instead, just now they tell us of the BA plane sent to Heathrow with bad engine, then proceed to assure us Brits say it is not terror!
Is FOX seriously conflating the Paki plane with the BA?
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posted on
05/24/2013 8:55:25 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: the OlLine Rebel
Two trying to charge the cockpit per Fox.
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posted on
05/24/2013 9:19:13 AM PDT
by
seeker41
(Take back your country before it is too late-STOP islamic expansion in the USA remove zero)
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posted on
05/24/2013 9:20:00 AM PDT
by
seeker41
(Take back your country before it is too late-STOP islamic expansion in the USA remove zero)
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