To: JustPiper
They are very deceptive creatures and all gave me a different story. "Nothing to see here...move along", "IT'S SERIES AND HUGH!" and "Make sure you bring the Tender Vittles into the safe room". Sooooo, I looked it up. :)
I'm posting the entire story because the site requires registration.
Flight returns to D/FW after suspicious item found on board
04:20 PM CST on Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Associated Press
GRAPEVINE, Texas An American Airlines jet returned to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Wednesday after a suspicious item, later determined to be a computer security identification device, was found on board.
A flight attendant found the device under a cabin seat about 40 minutes after Flight 1474 had taken off for Charlotte, N.C., said Tim Wagner, a spokesman for Fort Worth-based American.
The pilot returned the plane to D/FW Airport and parked it in a remote area of the tarmac for inspection. The 59 passengers and five crew members on board the MD-80 aircraft were safely deplaned.
"Purely as a precaution, the pilot returned and a security agent identified the device," Wagner said.
Wagner said the small device, which displays passwords to help prevent computer fraud or tampering, probably belonged to a passenger.
No other flights were delayed during the mid-afternoon incident.
The passengers were to be put on other flights to Charlotte.
10,798 posted on
01/15/2004 8:33:43 PM PST by
windchime
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To: windchime
"the small device...probably belonged to a passenger"
what? they didn't think to ask? somethin' not right there.
To: windchime
10,800 posted on
01/15/2004 8:37:40 PM PST by
windchime
(Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
To: windchime
That is odd. What kind of device is that? There are so many computer genius types on FR, maybe we'll get an answer and a description.
To: windchime
To: windchime
Thank you so much for finding this so the two of us did see a correct newsbreak ;)
11,054 posted on
01/16/2004 11:40:08 AM PST by
JustPiper
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