Dateline Moscow: Passengers refuse to fly with two women in black on board (Original title)

Pravda On-Line ^ | 09/23/2004 | staff writer

[yankeedame]

Passengers refuse to fly with two women in black on board

09/23/2004 13:51

Incidents when Russian passengers refuse to fly due to suspicious-looking females of Middle Eastern descent are becoming a norm these days.

On September 1, the day of the Beslan tragedy, passengers of a Moscow-bound flight from Sharm el Sheih (Egypt) refused to fly with two Muslim women in traditional clothes onboard. This time, another flight from Moscow to Khurgada has been delayed.

"Two Egyptian women were set to fly aboard a TU-154 airplane of "KrasAir" departing for Khurgada," stated RIA "Novosti"s" spokesman.

A group of five students from Dagestan were the last ones to board the aircraft. Among them were two Egyptian women dressed in black.

"Considering the recent events, security services searched them thoroughly. Their documents were fine; nothing was wrong with the luggage either. However, due to such time-consuming security check, they were the last ones to board the plane. This in turn caused major uproar among the passengers. People demanded them to be taken off the flight," added he.

"A young man accompanied by a woman and two children was the last one to step aboard due to a long security check. They were on their way to Egypt, where they"ve been living for five years. As soon as the rest of the passengers saw them aboard, people simply refused to fly - perhaps, they were fearful of a possible terrorist act," noted the airline company"s spokesman.

In the course of the following two hours, airport and airline spokespeople were trying to persuade the passengers to fly along with the Egyptians. People however remained steadfast.

All the passengers were then escorted back to the airport where each one of them had to undergo additional security check. The two Egyptian women have been examined publicly.

There were 120 people aboard the Tu-154 airplane. As a result of this little incident, the flight Moscow-Khurgada had eventually departed for Egypt with a four-and-a-half-hour delay.

Similar incident took place in Egypt on 1 September, 2004. Passengers along with crew members of a Moscow-bound airplane (KrasAir) from Sharm el Sheih refused to continue the flight after Egyptian personnel had allowed 2 Middle Eastern women to board the plane.

According to the crew, both of the females behaved rather suspiciously: they locked themselves up in the lavatory right after boarding. In the end, due to the crew"s and the passenger"s protest, they were asked to leave the plane.

Read the original in Russian: (Translated by: Anna Ossipova)

[Nov3]

OHMYGOD the ACLU will go crazy and sue them over this. Wait this happened in the world outside of the liberal nuts here in our homeland security.

[NY Attitude]

Flying with the "shadow women" or whatever is under the "chador" can be unnerving.

[NY Attitude]

Flying with the "shadow women" or whatever is under the "chador" can be unnerving.

[steplock]

The Russian people know exactly how to handle threats - to hell with people like the ACLU lawer sucmbags.

[kittymyrib]

Let Muslims fly on their own airlines. With all the oil money these fly-speck countries have, they should be able to afford some planes and then they could all fly Allah Airlines. The rest of us could travel in peace this way.

[John Jorsett]

Given the level of official corruption that permeates the Middle East, this is probably a rational response. There's no way of knowing if someone was really searched or just paid a bribe to be let on board.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Yep. And if these "shadow women" are offended by the treatment they receive, let them step out of the shadows and denounce the atrocities committed in the name of the god they worship. Until they denounce it, it's only intelligent to assume the condone it. "Please ma'am, sit back and put one foot in each stirrup." (They suspect the two women who bombed the Russian planes had hidden the explosives either in soap or in a body cavity.)

[Getsmart64]

"Let Muslims fly on their own airlines. With all the oil money these fly-speck countries have, they should be able to afford some planes and then they could all fly Allah Airlines. The rest of us could travel in peace this way."

Ooohhhh yaaa...I'd like this to happen....

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[sweetliberty]

Looks like the people have the power to profile, whether the airline is willing to or not. Too bad people are unwilling to do that here. I think more have just taken the route I have, and avoided flying at all.

[VOA]

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I don't like you because you're gonna' GET ME KILLED!"

--spoken (shouted!) by Samuel L. Jackson in "Die Hard 3"

[lancer]

There's no way of knowing if someone was really searched or just paid a bribe to be let on board.

The two flights that were brought down last month were blown up by muslim women who had bribed an airport flunkie a few bucks to let them on board.

[No Surrender No Retreat]

The airline would be titled, "Dune Goon Air-Muzlimb Widow-Maker Inc."

[NY Attitude]

Most of them do not know any other life. They are taught these behaviors from childhood. The women are looked upon as third class citizens. Because of a lack of formal education, they are pliable to believe what they are told.

[unlearner]

"Let Muslims fly on their own airlines. With all the oil money these fly-speck countries have, they should be able to afford some planes and then they could all fly Allah Airlines. The rest of us could travel in peace this way."

You're saying that having Muslim run airlines flying planes all over the place would make you feel safer?

I thought Muslim extremist seizing aircraft was the problem that led to 9/11. So we should let them have their own airlines and their own security checks before entering shared airspace?

Maybe you should reconsider your suggestion.

[Paleo Conservative]

That's profiling.