Ping
BTTT!
Wasn’t this long ago? I am here in Atlanta and don’t recall that last month.
This sounds exactly like a story a couple years ago
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/faa-to-investigate-cell-202143.html
“FAA to investigate cell phone use on Atlanta flight”
By Alexis Stevens and Kristi Swartz
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
SNIPPET: “The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating what led to the two-and-a-half hour delay of a Tuesday flight from Atlanta to Houston, an agency spokeswoman said Wednesday morning.
An AirTran spokesman said a man traveling with a group Tuesday afternoon refused to turn his cell phone off before takeoff. But the woman sitting behind the man said it wasn’t a phone at all, and feels the entire incident was the result of poor communication.
“He was not talking on a cell phone, it was a camera,” said Nancy Deveikis of Marietta. “He was looking at pictures.”
A flight attendant asked the man twice to turn off the device, Deveikis said. But it was clear the man did not speak English, she said. Although the man was traveling with others, the rest of the group was seated throughout the plane.”
Was the gate crashing at the wh an innocent mistake or a dry run?
As long as they strip searched an 80 year old grandma, presumably everything turned out OK.
11 people (size of hijack team) up out of their seats when the plane is taxiing- should be prosecutable.
Flying is a privilege, Not a “right”.
Now watch for the CAIR lawsuits.
Note: I couldn’t find anything in November in the media section of the TSA.gov or the FAA.gov regarding this incident.
I either overlooked it or there was no mention of the incident as described in the 2 news articles.
If I was on that flight I would have been taking photos and videos of everything and everyone involved. Where are the photos and videos of this?
No warm fuzzy feeling about my upcoming trips to Dallas on AirTran! Will be extra on alert for weirdness.
Here’s another article on the same thing.
http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/12/so-was-this-a-language-misunde.html
Hope their are still adults in charge keeping an eye on all this.:(
Do either of you have the flight number? Jim Quinn (on his radio show this morning) was asking about a recent flight (that he had received emails on) that he didn’t want to discuss until he got further information. His site is Warroom.com (there is a link on the FR homepage) and his shows are accessible by podcast (might be able to find out if this is what he was speaking of).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399016/posts
Here’s my thread from last night. Interesting comments.
Same story via an email today. It is evident that we have terrorist sympathizers in our government that must be voted out in 2010 and 2012. Wake up America.
http://69.84.25.250/blogger/post/Muslims-disrupt-flight-Atlanta-to-Houston.aspx
FOR ANYONE WHO FLIES, READ THIS IMPORTANT ARTICLE ABOUT A FLIGHT FROM ATLANTA TO HOUSTON WHICH WAS CANCELED AND WHY. THESE TERRORISTS ARE NOT BEYOND TRYING TO TEST TSA OR HOW PASSENGERS WILL REACT TO THE THREATS AND THEIR OUTRAGEOUS BEHAVIOR. STAY ALERT STAY ALIVE.
No brainer.
Dry run.
I wouldn’t have stayed on that flight either.
My friend spoke with Mr. Hackamack over the phone and by email yesterday and this appears to be legitimate. Mr. Hackamack also mentioned that his friend Mr. Petruna has since lost his job with NASA.