Posted on 12/31/2009 8:53:07 AM PST by milwguy
The pilots union at American Airlines said Wednesday that the Transportation Security Administration didnt warn flight crews appropriately during the terrorist attempt on a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas, Dow Jones reports.
The union, the Allied Pilots Association, wrote to American Airlines that some pilots were left out of the loop when TSA told some airlines to notify only pilots on inbound transatlantic flights, Dow Jones said.
The TSA should have mandated that information about this security event be passed on to all airborne flights, the APA wrote.
The letter seems contradict Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitanos comments that the system worked in responding to the terrorism attempt. Clarifying her remarks that were criticized, she said on the Today show, once the incident occurred, moving forward, we were immediately able to notify the 128 flights in the air of protective measures to take, immediately able to notify law enforcement on the ground, airports both domestically, internationally, all carriers, all of that happening within 60 to 90 minutes.
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First she goes on CNN and says the 'system worked' in regards to the panty bomber. Then when she and her boss Barry realize how completely the system FAILED, they trot her out on Monday to say the 'system worked' after the 'system failed'.
Now we realize from the pilot's union, that the system failed BEFORE the attempted bombing, and AFTER the attempted bombing. To assume only international flights were at risk while this situation was unfolding is beyond stupid. We had no information EITHER way that more bombers were in the air, either on domestic flights or international flights. To notify only the pilots on int'l flights while not telling the pilots flying domestic routes is beyond stupid. Either tell all or tell none, especially when you do not have the facts.
Apparently Baghdad Butch still can't get her story straight, and the American people deserve much more.
She definitely needs to go. She outright lied about ongoing security in the wake of what happened on flight 523. The fact that bambi hasn’t fired her yet speaks volumes. He will let us all be killed before he admits he and his administratin screwed up.
Good thing I don’t have to fly anytime soon.
I’m sure her statement was taken out of context.....cough.
This is just a practise run for a “homeland” muzzie to blow up an intraflight, say from Detroit to Florida?
Is Napalitano incompetent? Certainly she is, but she is just the one taking the heat right now.
Obama’s whole administration is filled with incompetence.
He never looked for competence in his appointments. Gates apoears to be the only appointment he actually thought out and Gates is only there because Obama had no clue as to who else to put there.
Incompetence is one thing. This is wanton disregard for life for the sake of political expediency. This sort of dishonesty with the American public DESPITE all of the truths that come out later to disprove them only leads to disenchantment and anger from both sides of the political spectrum.
I feel for Obama in a way. He’s about to have his world taken down by his own people.
In his Monday statement, President Obama also tried to take credit for notifying the flights still in the air of the possible threat. Of course that was quite a trick since Obama himself wasn’t notified until three hours after the flight finally landed.
That could be a successful sit-com..
Do you personally know that Janet N. is a butch? Her fetching haircut seems to belie that rumor! All I can say is that Janet Napolitano is no more a lesbian than Hillary Clinton! Bob
I do have a friend in gov’t in Arizona and he provided me with a little ‘inside’ info on our Ms. Napolitano....
Oh, I believe you; I’d be stunned if that haircut “fetched” anything but other “wymyn”. Such as Hillary, before Sarah Palin’s proud feminine style caused her to grow her own dykey-do’. Bob
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