A shame isn’t it.
Whatever happened, the pilot and crew CHOSE TO NOT CONTINUE THE FLIGHT.
Whatever happened, a number of passengers (12 or so) ALSO CHOSE TO NOT CONTINUE THE FLIGHT.
The story making the rounds may be hyped up about what happened, but the AirTran story is also CLEARLY NOT THE TRUTH.
The crew and passengers WOULD NOT BE GETTING OFF FOR SUCH A MINOR INCIDENT.
As you say...
“Whatever happened, the pilot and crew CHOSE TO NOT CONTINUE THE FLIGHT.
Whatever happened, a number of passengers (12 or so) ALSO CHOSE TO NOT CONTINUE THE FLIGHT.
The story making the rounds may be hyped up about what happened, but the AirTran story is also CLEARLY NOT THE TRUTH.
The crew and passengers WOULD NOT BE GETTING OFF FOR SUCH A MINOR INCIDENT.”
There is more to this than Airtran is saying. I sympathize with them ... well, until now ... for the difficult spot this whole thing put them in. But TSA is charged with our protection, and they have no excuse.
I looked up another rather similar situation, Annie Jacobsen and Northwest Flight 327 on June 29, 2004. and posted links, including the Snopes take on it, to another thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2400688/posts #70
Btw, the Snopes article on NW 327 http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/skyterror.asp was last updated 5/28/2007 ... articles cited are all 4 from 2004.... but released documents actually support that (again, like in this Airtran 297 case) “something” was happening that was not right.
THe crew may have been required to swap out because of the length of the delay, which may have pushed them past their maximum hours for the day.
Just imagine what would’ve happened had a dozen Christians gotten off their seats in a plane on a Riyadh tarmac and started to sing Christian hymns.
We, as a nation, are digging our graves when we allow the enemy to live among us. Can anyone list any positive contribution that Muslims have made to this nation?
Something cataclysmic on the order of 10X what happened on 9/11/01 will need to wake this country up from its coma. And even then, we’ll probably apologize to the Muslims for our insensitivity and keep on broadcasting that Islam is basically a ROP.