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American Airlines Threatens Legal Action Over ABC's 'Path to 9/11'
TV Week ^ | Sept. 11. 2006 | Ira Teinowitz

Posted on 09/12/2006 11:22:26 AM PDT by pillut48

"ABC's airing of its "Path to 9/11" docudrama last night has drawn its first lawsuit threat, and the surprise is that it's coming not from angry Democrats but from an "outraged" American Airlines..."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americanairlines; nocasehere
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To: COEXERJ145

I just curse that stupid Wright Amendment that won't let me fly Southwest instead of Anti-American Airlines.


21 posted on 09/12/2006 11:33:21 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Well, that's up to the CongressCritters to fix.


22 posted on 09/12/2006 11:33:56 AM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
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To: CT-Freeper
I can see why AA would be upset, being that the movie implied that it was their desk attendants at Logan that received the warning about Atta on their monitors, when in fact it was a totally different airline in a totally different city.

Obviously they haven't really thought it through, or they'd realize that they're admitting they didn't screen anyone at all. It appears that once Atta got through security in Portland, AA never batted an eye at him. Which was standard security everywhere, and is just changing now, but if I were an AA exec, I wouldn't be jumping up and down telling everyone to look at my lousy security screen.

"We're going to sue you for making it look like we boarded Atta after screening him, when in fact we never screened him at all."

23 posted on 09/12/2006 11:34:30 AM PDT by nina0113
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To: pillut48

This must be concerning the scene where Mohammad Atta's named popped up on a ticket agent's screen as a "warning" and was let on anyway...only "holding" their luggage till the hijackers boarded the plane.


24 posted on 09/12/2006 11:34:57 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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To: pillut48

Article: "Roger Frizzell, American's VP of corporate communications and advertising, in an e-mail posted on liberal Web site Americablog.blogspot.com and confirmed by American as genuine, expressed astonishment at the scene." Hmmmm. Looks like his sentiments might be more about politics than accuracy.


25 posted on 09/12/2006 11:35:45 AM PDT by Ilky Hucktar
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To: pillut48

I saw the entire movie on both nights. I didn't think that AA was unfairly portrayed. AFAIC, if AA sues the producer, I will avoid flying on it.


27 posted on 09/12/2006 11:36:07 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: Prysson
Clearly England should sue Icon over Braveheart.

Not to mention "The Patriot." Did the British really burn those churches with colonists trapped inside?

28 posted on 09/12/2006 11:38:03 AM PDT by My2Cents (A pirate's life for me.)
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To: pillut48

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=2891

American Airlines among others has never been held liable for bribing Al Gore and others to avoid the expense of implementing 1996 Gore Airline Safety Commission recommendations - such as reinforced cockpit doors- that might have foiled 9-11 hijackers.

Suing ABC over a movie is chutzpah by these govt-bailed out greedmongers who traded a few hundred bucks per airplaner for thousands of lives.


29 posted on 09/12/2006 11:38:08 AM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: dfwgator

That exactly right. Its hard to top Northwest's arrogance in the airline industry but AA comes close.


30 posted on 09/12/2006 11:39:35 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: Prysson
"Clearly England should sue Icon over Braveheart. NO WAY Edward threw his son's lover out a window. Never happened.

Furthermore. Italy should sue HBO over it's whole Rome series. Because Atia was not a single mother and Augustus wasnt even in Rome when Ceasar was assasignated.

This sort of thing is just rediculous.

Its a movie for crying out loud.

Perfectly put. I'm sure with a little imagination we can come up with any number of additional ones.........

31 posted on 09/12/2006 11:40:56 AM PDT by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: COEXERJ145
Well, that's up to the CongressCritters to fix.

Ha ha ha ha, that's a good one, as long as American lobbyists are filling up their coffers.

32 posted on 09/12/2006 11:40:56 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: pillut48

You would think the airlines would just be glad that the government paid victims' families off with a stipulation that they could not sue anyone after accepting the money.


33 posted on 09/12/2006 11:42:04 AM PDT by WV Mountain Mama (If Bin Laden were a woman, Clinton would have nailed him every chance he got. (Oldie but goodie))
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To: pillut48

Suing is stupid but then again so is screwing up a fact like that. It's not a small little detail they embellished. They should have associated the warning with the RIGHT airline.


34 posted on 09/12/2006 11:42:47 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Put a mirror to the face of the republican party and all you'll see is a Donkey.)
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To: dfwgator

Precisely.

Do you think they want to give depositions about exactly where they dropped the ball that day?


35 posted on 09/12/2006 11:43:42 AM PDT by Howlin (Who in the press will stick up for ABC's right to air this miniseries? ~~NRO)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

How exactly is it that Northwest is still flying??


36 posted on 09/12/2006 11:44:17 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: OldFriend
And what did American Airlines do to make sure their cockpit doors could NOT be breached?

So let victims' families sue AA, and every other airline that's ever been hijacked.

But that doesn't excuse lying about them.
37 posted on 09/12/2006 11:44:53 AM PDT by kenavi (Save romance. Stop teen sex.)
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To: dfwgator

Don't know if you're a fan of Carlos Mencia's comedy or not, but your post reminded me of him saying that 9/11 would have never happened if the terrorist flew Southwest and he goes on to relate a pre-9/11 newsstory where passengers on Southwest beat a man to death (literally) who tried to breach the cockpit. ;)


38 posted on 09/12/2006 11:46:22 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan ("My Friends we did it....we made a difference. ...All in all not bad, not bad at all." Pres. Reagan)
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To: sarasota

Beats me. I'm flying to Chicago this weekend.


39 posted on 09/12/2006 11:46:58 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: pillut48

I've never seen such weenies in my life as the Democrats and the corporations that support them.


40 posted on 09/12/2006 11:48:17 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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