Posted on 08/25/2006 3:21:11 AM PDT by prisoner6
LONDON - An Aer Lingus flight from New York with 239 passengers aboard was evacuated in Ireland Friday following a threat against the aircraft, airport authorities said.
Aer Lingus Flight 112 was evacuated during a scheduled stop at 2:50 a.m. EDT at Shannon airport in western Ireland, said airport spokesman Eugene Pratt. The plane was en route to Dublin.
The threat "came to a police station in Dublin, and referred to some explosives aboard that specific flight," Pratt said. No trace of explosives was found in the initial search.
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Lingus was an distinguished officer who was the first to execute a successful muff dive in a dogfight.
I thought it was named for his daughter, Connie.
Not to be an old fuddy dud....but I chortle at this "inconvenience" when I'm on a non-stop transpacific flight in an aluminum can going 500mph at 40,000ft further distances than B29's could fly during the "Space Age" of the 50-60's-----all while I'm having a sushi plate from Tokyo and rinsing it down with a cheap $5 mini-bottle of wine from California.
Very rarely, when missed by the global Wx radar network, there will be enough turbulence to make me look up from my tubeless laptop-ENIAC or portable MGM movie studio and note that my miniature Glenfiddich bottle is perceptibly wiggling.
Meanwhile, our boys are still cramped in submarine bunks no bigger than my coach seat and Marines are in 120° APCs being thudded and thumped with 20g's of IED explosions....and no scotch.
Can you imagine people today having to ride in a bumpy un-airconditioned 1955 Bel-Air to the airport?
When I hear "inconvenience" and "whining" in the security line, I have to restrain myself from beating the crap out of some of these ignernt peeps!!!
If they don't screen everyone chances are good that they'll miss terrorists.
Besides which, it is NO BIG DEAL to go through airport security.
As a matter of fact, I'm more than happy to do it, and to be wanded...... middle-aged, female WASP that I am........ to make everyone more secure.
Colonel Angus.
All it takes is one nutcase to make a phone call. It happens ALL the time in schools and hospitals (white folks mostly), and while it is a minor inconvenience and must be taken care of, life goes on.
There are thousands more flights that go on with no hitches than these handful that are disrupted.
And there is no doubt of the answer to your question (did you really mean it?). WE are winning this war.
Simply brilliant.
nuns, again...
Well, I certainly agree that it's a travesty that our soldiers and marines have to ride around in those metal tanks and APCs with no air conditioning. Rummy should be fired for that alone. As for the scotch, well they should wait till they get back to the FOB for that.
That is a GREAT post, sam! THANK YOU!
I'm guessing it only took him ten minutes to reach his decision.
This is getting a bit thick.
And just a day after an entire flight was turned back, escorted by fighter jets, becuase a bunch of muslims were exchanging porno on their cellphones.
Osama must be laughing his ass off.
I've flown alot recently, including twice since the Britain Threat. The extra security is not an inconvenience. Infact, i've found that security lines are actually shorter because people are sure to put anything that might cause question into their checked baggage instead of holding up the carry-on checking lines.
If anything, the extra security is a reminder that we are at war and there are fanatics trying to hit us, the extra security reminds us of terrorism and what are we figthing against, and that America still needs to be on both the offensive and the defensive.
No, that's not a penis pump, Mom. Really (O'Hare Bomb Scare)
Boy.......ya try to carry on a serious conversation here.......
To solve this, it is very simple.
Start a new Airline. Call it the "Jihad express".
No security required, fly at your own risk.
No security lines. Allow people to go on with bombs, basball bats, guns, and rusty knives for ritual beheadings of infidels. (Beheadings and mutilations of infidels would be considerd routine, like taking a dump in the rest room.)
If plane veers of course by one mile, it has remote control detonator to blow it up. Instead of calling it a "Black Box", we call it the "Jihad box".
This will allow all muslims to travel safely, and avoid the muslim profiling issue. If any Infidel feels brave or needs to skip secuity, its his choice. But at least he can carry a basball bat or gun and have a fighting chance to avoid being beheaded.
lol yea I saw that one... dont see how a bomb is better than a penis pump!
I thought his name was Richard.
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