Flights From Paris to U.S. Cancelled

MSNBC | December 24, 2003

[cyncooper]

MSNBC just announced that three flights from Paris to the U.S. have been suddenly cancelled due to "security concerns". The first flight was scheduled to depart Paris heading for Los Angeles.

I could not find an article yet.

[aquaculture]

More bright anti-France thoughts!

[DaughterofEve]

I agree with you!

[nina0113]

It's really sad to see how much France has degenerated in just the last ten years - when I was in Normandy in 92, every little village had "Rue General Eisenhower" and/or "Rue General Patton". Everywhere I went, someone would buy me a glass of wine for being an American. The American Cemetery at St. James (IIRC) was so tidy as to make Arlington look shabby. They still remembered who had bailed them out two times running, and were still grateful. I'm afraid the last of that generation are the ones who died of heat stroke last summer, though.

[The G Man]

"How can this happen? They banned headscarfs!"

LOL!

[Semper Paratus]

Waiting for details, airline(s) time of departure/arrival, were the planes ready to go?

[aquaculture]

And even more deep thoughts, by someone who certainly knows a lot about WWII!

[mewzilla]

Richard Reid was on a flight out of Paris. Doesn't sound like they solved their security problems, does it?

[glock rocks]

msnbc:

security concerns expressed by the French officials!

one of three was scheduled for LAX.

[jbstrick]

ohhh. I guess you think the French are looking out for our interests?

[aquaculture]

No, the shoe-bomber was British. But let's say he was French!

[mewzilla]

CNN: 3 flights to LA from Paris cancelled.

[MEG33]

Who did the cancellation and why should tell more.Could be the French were worried about Stingers here.

[Centurion2000]

Good .... let the frenchies stay home

[jbstrick]

Get a life and troll another thread

[Toskrin]

I understand that the people in Normandy are still much more pro-America than the rest of the country.

[mewzilla]

I wonder if the French concerns had anything to do with a request from the American Embassy...

[Cage Rattler]

more likely the flights were empty due to cancellations due to mad cow outbreak....this disease is taken far more seriously on the continent...

[XHogPilot]

Hoping it's a false alarm

We many never know, considering a terrorist plan thrwarted just prior to execution results in... the status quo.

[Yossarian]

France..the home of the shoe-bomber, right?

Wrong. Richard Ried (spelling?) is a British citizen, no matter where the flight originated.

[meyer]

Was waiting for the first knee-jerk anti-French comment! Deep thinkin', from people who poured good wine onto the sidewalk and called the land of Lafayette "the enemy".

Nothing knee-jerk about anti-French commentary. They're a good part of the reason that we had to go to Iraq in the first place.

And at least they didn't pour out good beer!

On the serious side, I do hope that they caught some of the culprits. I suspect that their motives had nothing to do with their admiration for the US though - they're simply covering their backside.