Continuing Questions About Flight

NY Times ^ | 8/3/04 | Joe Sharkey

[Political Junkie Too]

So there was absolutely no sudden move by the men on final approach? "None," Mr. Adams said.

Also, there were no incendiary devices at Waco. No witnesses saw streaks of light race up towards TWA800. The plane zoom-climbed, it didn't plummet. We missed bin Laden by just an hour.

-PJ

[tiamat]

When I have a moment, I will indeed check this out.

I am in the process of switching residnce.

So I am a bit scattered and surrounded by WAY too many brown boxes!

I also use a Mac.

When I have time, I will sort it out.

Thank you, though, for the advice!

:-)

[tracer]

After she raised hell, there was no choice but to call in the calvary.....

[tracer]

"On my last NWA flight I heard a flight attendant say "I'd hate to get old like that" in the hearing of an elderly couple needing wheelchair assistance."

With a smart and careless mouth like that, the air-bitch might just her wish.......

[tracer]

"In the meantime, loyal Americans should be encouraged to report suspicious behavior."

"Encourage" takes time. "Stop" buys time and makes it available for future use in mortality.....

[Leroy S. Mort]

I've flown on a flight with air marshals. They were obvious

Two air marshals pulled a guy off my daughter's AirTran flight to Dulles Monday night. One marshal was a big black guy in a hawaiian shirt. The other was a "very tough looking woman" (to quote my daughter). Point being - they're not always so obvious.

[tracer]

"Yeah, they're obvious. It's very rare for a pair of suited guys to both be quite so fit and to chat with the crew."

I'm not an air marshal, and I (one suited guy)do it all the time.

A proper bearing, some proper ID, size, and a well-timed, discrete, and convincing offer to help maintain the cover of air marshals should the $#!t hit the fan is quite winsome.

I don't have short hair, always sit in the back of the aircraft, and, although getting a bit long in the tooth, would rather die or have the merde kicked out of me in a fight than be murdered in cold blood.

I'm quite pragmatic on latter score do indeed eschew a coward's funeral. And I'm afraid that the hard-ass-in-life Marine who helped me to be born and raised me otherwise would kick my candy-@$$ on the other side of the veil while St. Peter laughed at the sight of it all....... 8~)

[Leroy S. Mort]

Do you know why the guy was pulled off?

No idea, but they took a notebook out of his seat. Last my daughter saw of him he was surrounded by the marshals and some "really big DC cops" in the terminal. Have seen nothing on the news. She said he looked Indian or Pakistani.

[Leroy S. Mort]

I asked her that. She goes to school with middle easterners, asians, and Indo-Pakistanis. She was quite sure the guy was the latter.

[protest1]

psst.... 4 planes out of tens of thousands on 9/11... pass it on... just a dry run this time... so nothing to worry about.