Posted on 08/25/2006 12:39:18 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
(Windsor Locks-WTNH, Aug. 25, 2006 Updated 2:56 PM) _ State police tell News Channel 8 that this morning a passenger reported a prohibited item on an inbound U.S. Airways flight from Philadelphia to Bradley International Airport.
The crew was alerted to the item just as it was scheduled to land; the plane landed safely around 9:00 a.m. on Friday.
There were 50 passengers and five crew members onboard. All remained onboard for about 20 minutes as officials searched the airplane. A utility knife was found on one of the seats of the plane.
Transportation Safety Administration and state police are investigating.
Jeez. We should post all this stuff on a single thread, the way things are going.
It's lucky they were able to apprehend that knife before it decided to hurt someone. Scary things, utility knives. Did they bring in conselors for the traumatized passengers?
Just wait for the Nervous Nellies to post who would have "wished for a F-16 escort" to make themselves feel better. Probably forgotten by a groundcrew member using it to scrape gum off the carpet or something.
~ Blue Jays ~
The knife doesn't bother me...The question is: were there any muzlims on board...Of course they won't tell you that...
I always like these kinds of comments by the f@$%^ing, lame, retarded teeheevee and dead tree "reporters". As if such a scary thing as the mere presence of an inanimate object like a utility knife would suddenly cause a major malfunction in the aircraft's electronic and hydraulic systems, sending it crashing to the ground. Sheeesh. Almost as bad as those "scary looking assault weapons".
"Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoe making and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poor house."
-- Mark Twain
"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed."
-Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The media haven't gotten any better at all since ol' Mark's time...
How about something dropped by a mechanic?
My husband and I went through my husband's laptop carry-on bag prior to a flight a few days after "the bust" to rid it of all "contraband" such as chapstick, eye drops, binaca, etc... Much to his horror, he found a box full of utility knife replacement blades. He had purchased these blades 6 months prior to take to a new site he was opening to give to the employees to open boxes. Like dman4384, he thought he put them in his luggage. When he didn't find them, he assumed he forgot them at home. Unlike dman4384, he forgot about the blades soon thereafter. He has flown close to 60 times since putting those blades in his lappie bag. Although grateful the blades were never found, we are marveling that not once did somebody notice enough utility knife razor blades (heavy duty kind) to distribute to 30 other passengers.
Re your third point..........
...and the dunces/accomplices in the Media accommodate the terrorists by disclosing not only that the contraband had been found, but, what the authority's reaction to that discovery was.
and so this explains, nicely, the rise of the private contract airlines among the corporate elites who didn't already qualify to fly on the key exec's GulfStream.
More and more business-class flyers are opting out of the public airways.
Well, it's a good thing some scofflaw didn't try to sneak a bottle of water onboard.
Now, tell me how many Islamic jihadists were on board and then I'll care. Pocket knives, nail clippers, water bottles, and gel insoles are NOT a threat. Islamic jihadists are. Until the TSA (or whatever equals that in other countries) finds a way to screen for Islamic jihadist sub humans all of these security measures are a hassle that doesn't make anything any safer.
No Batteries On Board!
Now that laptops have a proven modus operandi as an explosive device I can see the TSA banning them as contaband, EVEN AS CHECKED BAGGAGE, since they can be left 'on' to burn up the luggage compartment after takeoff.
Predict that pols will hear the whining and get TSA to admit laptops w/o batteries. So everybody will have individual wired hookups at each seat.
As if the ever vigilant boys and girls of TSA would let that happen.
There's a shameful part of me that wants to be on a plane some yahoo armed with an edged weapon tries to take over
The flight originated in San Juan earlier yesterday, made a stop in Philadelphia and then continued on to Hartford. I was on the flight from San Juan to Philadelphia. All passengers had to disembark at Philadelphia so that the plane could be cleaned. I bet it was a maintenance worker that used a knife to fix something on the plane in Philadelphia and that the worker mistakenly left it there.
BTW I discovered a small hotel-sized bottle of mouthwash in my carry-on this morning......
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