Posted on 01/05/2009 8:34:13 PM PST by Cronos
Nine Muslim passengers were kicked off a flight from Washington, D.C., to Florida after other passengers reported hearing a suspicious remark about airplane security.
AirTran Airways spokesman Tad Hutcheson called the incident on the New Year's Day flight from Reagan National Airport to Orlando, Fla., a misunderstanding, but defended the company's response. He said the airline followed federal rules and did nothing wrong.
One of the Muslim passengers, Kashif Irfan, told The Washington Post the confusion began when his brother was talking about the safest place to sit on an airplane.
"My brother and his wife were discussing some aspect of airport security," Irfan said. "The only thing my brother said was, 'Wow, the jets are right next to my window.'"
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"At the end of the day, people got on and made comments they shouldn't have made on the airplane, and other people heard them," Hutcheson said. "Other people heard them, misconstrued them. It just so happened these people were of Muslim faith and appearance. It escalated, it got out of hand and everyone took precautions."
One of the passengers removed, Abdur Razack Aziz, said he will consider a lawsuit.
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Been posted numerous times.
How come no one has yet reported what these scabs actually
SAID??? (according to the passenger who overheard them, and justifying why two federal air marshals onboard recommended these turkeys get the boot)
RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST!
Buy cases of bottled water and keep it out of the sun
This took place last week and has been discussed to death.
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At what altitude where they kicked out??
Why couldn’t they have waited about an hour before letting them off?
Still better than 9 dead Christians after a cartoon...
First time I've seen it. Just cause you saw it and discussed it doesn't everybody else did.
If it's old news maybe you should click on a new news thread.
Dude, are you in a time zone three days behind the rest of us?
Thanks for the thread!!
Gee, you’d think someone threw a sandal at them....
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I have heard that even some news junkies go cold turkey on the weekend. Regular people do it all the time.
“One of the passengers removed, Abdur Razack Aziz, said he will consider a lawsuit.”
The modus operandi of the muslims. Intimidation. That is the way they will use to keep the rest of us off guard.
My brother-in-law was flying to his sister’s (and my wife’s sister’s) wedding in Seattle from Newark Airport I think. This was long before 9-11. He was afraid to fly-understatement. His two brothers and I got him liquored up and dragged him on the air plane. As the plane began to take off, it was a little bumpy. My brother-in-law began to yell...;Oh my God this is an L10-11, we are going to crash (one had gone down about a week before). Everyone on the plane became very nervous. A woman began to cry. My brother-in-law-now stone cold sober alternately barfed and yelled for about 15 minutes. Finally, out came a guy dressed in a pilot’s uniform, he gave my brother-in-law two choices...shut up or I’ll gag you. It was so embarrassing. I do believe he was banned from this airline for several years-not that he ever flies anyway. I can only imagine what would have happened if this had occurred after 9-11.
Yes,this may not be one of those cases where they deliberately make trouble and then scream-discrimination, but I hear it’s done quite often to harass the Airlines and Americans in general.
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