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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Aer Lingus--does Aer have a sister named Connie?
Wow, that didn't take long ;)
Which Arabs are the Irish oppressing?
A man is walking in Belfast when someone comes up behind him and shoves a gun in his back. The gunman asks, "Be ye Catholic or Protestant?"
The man thinks that answering either way has a 50% chance of being wrong and says, "I'm Jewish."
The gunman replies, "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I must be the luckiest Muslim in Belfast!"
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