To: BurbankKarl
Aha so what you heard was correct. I'm glad they took no chances and scambled the jets anyway. Was that one of those Singapore Airlines planes than can go the 18 hours straight without stopping for fuel?
2,261 posted on
05/04/2004 5:13:10 PM PDT by
WestCoastGal
("Hire paranoids, they may have a high false alarm rate, but they discover all the plots" Rumsfeld)
To: WestCoastGal
it said it was a long range Airbus...so I guess yes...
The Cerritos fire is starting to hit Perris.
Evacs on the west side, off Ellis Ave,
south to Hwy 74 and Theda, with more
areas threatened near there.
To: WestCoastGal
Interesting that it was a Singapore Airlines flight...they actually were one of the three that had reported threats (on two different occasions...once was Sing. and two others in Bangkok, but it sounded like the threat was to the offices more than flights; and then at least one other threat to flights within the last 2 months or so).
I know the story says it was a transponder malfunction, just interesting that it's one of the three other airlines (outside of the American ones and BA, Air France and Aero Mexico) that had publicized anything threat related recently.
To: WestCoastGal; All
2,351 posted on
05/04/2004 9:12:17 PM PDT by
JustPiper
(Look for the dream that keeps coming back - It is your destiny)
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