British Airways Flight 216 Held at Dulles Airport Tonight

Local Channel 9 | Thursday, January 1, 2004 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

WUSA-TV 9 in Washington, D.C. reported on their 11 p.m. news that yet another British Airways flight is being scrutinized by federal agents at Dulles Airport.

Flight 216, scheduled to depart hours ago, is being kept from takeoff while its passengers and luggage are rescreened.

[Diver Dave]

Wow! Another one.
Our daughter, s-i-l and grandson flew into San Francisco this afternoon aboard a BA flight.
She figured that it would be a safe flight given the fact that the route took them over Canada. What's Canada got worth attacking? :)
Then, San Francisco is safe from terrorists cuz it can't get screwed up any worse than what the libs and gays have already created.

[Amelia]

Airline crews notice suspicious behavior daily

[kristinn]

You guys can stay up all night for that. I'm going to try to go to bed soon.

[bcoffey]

I'm going to try to go to bed soon.

Me too -- I wonder if we'll be doing this again tomorrow night.

[onyx]

Good link, Amelia. I don't know what to make of these events, do you? I am thankful our people are being so cautious, careful and vigilant.

[af_vet_1981]

This is good. They are doing their best to prevent terrorist attacks.

[Amelia]

I'm going to try to go to bed soon.

Me too, but you know this place is like a bar that never closes!

[Amelia]

I don't know what to make of these events, do you? I am thankful our people are being so cautious, careful and vigilant.

I don't know what to make of it either....I just hope that people don't start regarding it as "much ado about nothing"....

[bcoffey]

Any updates?

flightarrivals.com still shows the flight as "not departed." That could mean it left the gate at 11:02 pm as you reported but hasn't yet taken off.

Or it could mean that the web site didn't update their info.

[kayak]

Man Restrained After Approaching Cockpit

From Drudge ~~~ In an incident over the Pacific on Thursday night, a passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight from Detroit to Honolulu had to be restrained after he approached the cockpit, airline officials said. The man was escorted to the back of the plane by two off-duty pilots who happened to be on board and was arrested when the plane landed. Thomas Becher, a spokesman for Northwest, said he could not say whether the incident was related to terrorism... Developing...

[kayak]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! ;-)

[null and void]

*smootch*

[kayak]

LOL!

[kayak]

Btw, that's one of the best tag lines ever!

[null and void]

Hey, If it's good enough for Saddam, it's good enough for me.

(Didn't make Taglinus Freerupublicus 30, although I was pinged to the thread as a winna)

[onyx]

I just hope that people don't start regarding it as "much ado about nothing"....

Some will, with the assistance of some of our media, but the rest of us will be grateful and alert.

The sad and sick fact is that some people will never believe the legitimacy of a given threat, until that threat becomes a reality and by then it's too late. I look at the threats and know that many have been foiled, but that we'll never hear about them.

[Peach]

I'm so confused. Now I'm sorry I got back up to read FR! LOL

[Peach]

It certainly does get more and more interesting each day.

Glad these are British flights and not French; they'd be letting Reid wannabes fly.

[nicmarlo]

Well, it's still showing the "actual" departure time for flight 2`16 is 22:07 at British Airways: http://www.britishairways.com/travel/arrdep/public/en_us

[TaxRelief]

Mexican flight denied clearance to fly to LA
Reuters

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - An Aeromexico flight to Los Angeles from Mexico City was canceled on New Year's Eve when officials citing security reasons said it would not be allowed to land, Mexican officials said Thursday.

Aeromexico Flight 490 was originally scheduled to take off in the late afternoon Wednesday but it was stopped after a call from U.S. Homeland Security officials, Agustin Gutierrez Canet, a spokesman for the Mexican president's office, told Reuters.

"The flight was canceled and the 40 passengers that were programmed to fly took another later flight on Mexicana," he said.

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