Well, this takes the cake. Another article about a different airline incident than the 14 musicians, but the same outcome -- this is another incident that happened in June.
It was made light of in the end by those who should have pursued these guys. Maybe there's been followup that they don't want us to know about, but this is a bit much. Written by the same woman who witnessed the other incident, she was told about this incident by airline employees.
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What Happened on United Airlines Flight 925? (Terrorists case flight)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1250133/posts
... Then, just minutes before the aircraft doors were set to close, ground agents hurried down the jet way with a group of late arrivals.
According to the ground agents, the nine men had arrived independently on separate itineraries from various Middle Eastern countries. The flight crew was told that one man came from Lahore, Pakistan, another from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, another from Afghanistan. Several of the men had no carry-ons, which one of the flight attendants found unusual. Most passengers embarking on a long, international flight carry at least something with them. The flight attendant took the ground agent aside and said, "something's not right."
The ground agent told the flight attendant she was being paranoid. The men, purportedly all Pakistani nationals, had been through secondary screening and had been swabbed for explosives. A heated discussion between the United Airlines ground agent and the flight attendant took place. The flight attendant inquired about what, if any, additional security measures could be taken; the ground agent pressed for an on-time departure. No additional security checks were made and the flight left on time.
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Much more at link for original article here:
http://www.womenswallstreet.com/WWS/article_landing.aspx?titleid=76&articleid=791
I hope this isn't a repeat post, but I've checked way back in the TM and haven't spotted it yet.
There was an astonishing amount of weird behavior on the flight, which is detailed at the original link.
A little more from the original link to the UAL flight story:
The flight attendants now began closely monitoring what the men were doing. One of the men carried a hand-held mirror as he walked around the plane. According to one flight attendant, the man "was holding [the mirror] and moving it around so he could see what was going on behind him. What he was doing was very suspicious."
Another flight attendant noted that the men had electronic gadgets with them. "They were not Game Boys or computers," said the veteran crew member, "but small electronic devices. I didn't recognize what they were." Other flight attendants took notice of the electronic equipment as well -- some of which was being passed among the men. "They started passing this one electronic device back and forth," said another flight attendant. "It looked like a transistor radio, only it wasn't."
Dear God.
That is absolutely frightening.