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Plane Lands at KCI After Passenger Finds Razor
Kansas City Star ^ | 08/02/05 | Glenn Rice

Posted on 08/02/2005 4:44:57 PM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins

Posted on Tue, Aug. 02, 2005

Plane lands at KCI after passenger finds razor

By GLENN E. RICE The Kansas City Star

An America West flight made a precautionary landing at Kansas City International Airport this afternoon after a passenger found a razor blade aboard, according to airport officials.

The flight originated in Phoenix and was on its way to Cleveland when the passenger saw the one-sided blade on the floor, KCI spokesman Joe McBride said.

The plane landed in Kansas City about 1:30 p.m. It was not immediately known where the blade came from. There were no reported problems involving passengers and no reported injuries, McBride said.

According to initial reports, the passenger saw the blade near the restroom. The passenger immediately alerted the flight crew, who put the blade in the cockpit, McBride said.

The pilot then decided to land at KCI, where airport police and its canine unit searched the plane. Authorities screened the 147 passengers and crew members who were on board and found nothing suspicious, McBride said. The plane resumed its flight about 90 minutes later.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airlinesecurity; kci; tsa
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1 posted on 08/02/2005 4:44:58 PM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

In five years we'll all be flying naked with our arms and legs strapped into the seats, and we'll only be able to get up by activating an optical sensor with our eyeballs to call the flight attendant.


2 posted on 08/02/2005 4:47:20 PM PDT by arbusto99
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To: arbusto99

Life is getting awfully tedious these days. Good grief!


3 posted on 08/02/2005 4:48:22 PM PDT by basil (Exercise your Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

"It was not immediately known where the blade came from."

I'm thinking Gillette or Possibly Schick...


4 posted on 08/02/2005 4:50:42 PM PDT by Sonar5 (60+ Million have Spoken Clearly - "We Want Our Country Back")
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

My goodness...are we becoming a nation of wimps?


5 posted on 08/02/2005 4:51:24 PM PDT by dakine
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To: basil
According to initial reports, the passenger saw the blade near the restroom.

OMG, what is a razor blade doing near the bathroom?!?!?!?!

:-p

6 posted on 08/02/2005 4:52:43 PM PDT by arbusto99
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To: Sonar5
I'm thinking Gillette or Possibly Schick...

LOL.

What's next, pilot sees 4 clouds and decides to abort bacause it doesn't feel right?

Yea, yea, I know.....we have to take every precaution to...turn you into robots.

LVM

7 posted on 08/02/2005 4:55:48 PM PDT by LasVegasMac ("God. Guts. Guns. I don't call 911." (bumper sticker))
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To: arbusto99

... and even photos of, or plastic toys that resemble, razors will force landings if found in flight.


8 posted on 08/02/2005 4:55:54 PM PDT by coloradan (Hence, etc.)
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

I wonder if anyone realizes how much this kind of thing costs in real dollars.


9 posted on 08/02/2005 4:56:09 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: arbusto99
There was a whole thread a while ago about how the yobs (gang bangers) in UK fabricate weapons from razor blades stuck into toothbrush handles.

The 9-11 guys used box cutters.

Be ever vigilant.

10 posted on 08/02/2005 4:57:43 PM PDT by spokeshave (Strategery + Shardenfreuden = Stratenshardenfreudenery)
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To: LasVegasMac

I'm too tired to post a photo of Susan Powter yelling "STOP THE INSANITY." But I assure you I'm thinking of it.


11 posted on 08/02/2005 4:58:49 PM PDT by arbusto99
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12 posted on 08/02/2005 5:00:50 PM PDT by Andy from Beaverton (I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
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To: Dog Gone
I wonder if anyone realizes how much this kind of thing costs in real dollars.

This is getting so crazy that I am willing to scrap the entire domestic airline industry and replace it with high speed rail. Since it is harder to roll one of those into a landmark, it may be our only chance to end the insanity.
13 posted on 08/02/2005 5:01:58 PM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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Any male muslims on that flight? just wondering.


14 posted on 08/02/2005 5:06:57 PM PDT by VastRWCon
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

What a crock of Schick.


15 posted on 08/02/2005 5:08:36 PM PDT by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: dakine

There are no dangerous people, just dangerous objects.


16 posted on 08/02/2005 5:21:32 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (here to help)
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

That was a close shave.


17 posted on 08/02/2005 5:24:32 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Sonar5

"I'm thinking Gillette or Possibly Schick"

I'm thinking perhaps a store branded razor from the Chinese-infested Walmart.</sarcasm>


18 posted on 08/02/2005 5:29:32 PM PDT by politicalwit (Due to the shortage of virgins, all suicide bombings have been cancelled.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham; Freedom of Speech Wins

Disaster was missed by a whisker.


19 posted on 08/02/2005 5:41:33 PM PDT by MRMEAN (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself. - Mark Tw)
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To: VastRWCon
Male Moslem fanatics don't shave: they wear full beards.

It therefore follows that a failure to find razor blades near the inflight bathroom represents a major cause for concern.

20 posted on 08/02/2005 6:04:30 PM PDT by John Locke
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