Security incident aboard AirTran Flight 297 suggests terror “Dry Run”

canadafreepress.com ^ | 12/3/09 | Doug Hagmann

[Kartographer]

On November 17, an incident took place aboard AirTran Flight 297 scheduled to fly from Atlanta Hartsfield Airport to Houston that the media does not want to cover and everyone from the airline to the TSA and other government agencies want to keep very quiet.

[Kartographer]

Either it was a dry run for a terrorist act or a possible run at scamming the airline with some sort of diiscrimination suite.

[samadams2000]

How about a civil / criminal disturbance charge so that we can learn their names?

[noblejones]

Shakedown. The 9/11 guys tried not to stick out. Someone should have followed them from the sirport and taken care of business.

[Hildy]

Unbelievable.

[rae4palin]

Here are some first-hand accounts:

http://yumurl.com/f8Orwr

[JouleZ]

Something needs to be done about this situation or it’s going to go ballistic!

[erk]

It appears this story may not be true. The author of the email was not on the plane.

Here is a very recent story and press release from Airtran: http://www.ajc.com/business/airtran-hero-wasn-t-226517.html

[Hypo]

If the reporter interviewed airline staff and they corroborate the story, then I would think the airline officials are trying to cover it up.

[DocH]

Pieces of SHIITE.

[rwfromkansas]

Makes no sense as a dry run. What exactly would they be trying to prove....that multiple muslims can fly on the same plane and be obnoxious jerks?

Nothing really this does to ‘dry run’ them for anything.

Most likely they wanted a lawsuit.

[Palladin]

It would be good if some of the passengers took pictures of these guys,either at the terminal or on the plane. This would back up the stories we’ve been hearing.

It is surely a dry run.

We are close to the anniversary of the Pan Am-Lockerbie mass murders: December 21

http://archives.syr.edu/panam/

[skinkinthegrass]

Most likely they wanted a lawsuit.

Its' the American Way :(
they learn real quick..but WE don't.

[Sloth]

This article does not even refer to any e-mail.

[TruthHound]

Let’s do a little common sense analysis of the Petruna accounting:

“...the entire crew, luggage in tow, left the plane...”
This is not only against every airline policy, but the FAA regulations as well. Leaving passengers on a plane without an airline representative will get every one of the crew immediately fired.

“5 minutes later,...”
Sure thing. Just a half dozen EXTRA crew just hanging around.

“...the cabin door opened again...”
Like they actually walked off the plane and sealed the passengers in behind them. “Hey, hands off those peanuts, pal!”

“...and a whole new crew walked on.”
“Oh, so the last crew walked off the plane because a dozen terrorists...er....umm...terrorized them to the point they just walked off? Pick me! Pick me!”

Are you kidding me?

Something happened on that plane. Maybe nefarious. Possibly conspiratorial. Probably just really stupid. But if you actually believe word for word what this Petruna clown wrote (admittedly only intended for the eyes of his friends and family), I have a bridge I want to sell you.

[Irisshlass]

He is not the only one saying it...do your homework.

[Irish Eyes]

Thanks for the post. What amazes me is that the second crew came on to continue the flight. No way in hell would I have stayed on that flight.

Wake up America !

[StolarStorm]

Reported gate times are notoriously wrong. For the airline to claim that he did not make the flight based on a 20 minute interval is absurd. How do I know this? I processed data for an airline using the same systems. They were almost always off. We had to LOTS of cleanup on them.

If he didn't make his flight, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN PUT ON ANOTHER FLIGHT AND THERE WOULD BE A DIRECT RECORD OF THAT! But he got home somehow. Another example of an outright and blatant lie.

Disgusting.

OH, and while I am at it... you know the airbus that lost its tail fin, soon after 9/11 and crashed in NYC??? Yeah, the torque did indeed knock the fin off... but the torque was caused by an engine that fell off causing the aircraft to lurch forcefully. Before the plane took off, there was a security breach involving a muslim man posing as a mechanic and caring tools that would assist in an engine sabotage. Another lie to cover up the sh*t that has been going down. And yes, there has been much more.

Flight out of Houston on 9/11 had some jihadist try to get on it too. They were caught. Bet you didn't hear that in the news either.

Sorry, I'm not yelling at you. I'm just fed up with seeing stories spread (or hushed up) to protect the followers of the "religion of peace" from backlash... and to keep airlines flying full.

Its tough sometimes to see this junk on the news when one has first hand knowledge that its a friggin lie.

[Publius6961]

It would be good if some of the passengers took pictures of these guys,either at the terminal or on the plane. This would back up the stories we’ve been hearing.

It would be even better if all passengers with camcorders got the camcorders going and focused on the sandmaggots.

Then the story tells itsef; no interpretation necessary.

If they are being obnoxious deliberately, the muslims would have a tough time pleading "misunderstandings."

Another possibility is for passengers to start singing together to drown out the deliberate loud, disruptive arabic screaming.

[Palladin]

If it didn’t happen at all, as some are claiming, then why did they have to change crews?

This stinks of another huge coverup by the airlines.

[StolarStorm]

It is a cover up and there have been plenty of others that you’ve never even heard a glimmer of. Funny that people would actually believe that the jihadists would all of a sudden stop targeting aircraft after the huge success they had on 9/11. HA!!