Posted on 01/05/2010 8:22:58 AM PST by BulletBobCo
(CNN) -- Following the attempt to bomb a passenger jet on Christmas Day, President Obama said that "once the suspect attempted to take down Flight 253, it's clear Homeland Security and Aviation Security took all appropriate actions."
I am a commercial airline pilot who was deep over the Atlantic flying from St. Kitts and Nevis for nearly six hours on Christmas Day following the attempted bombing on Flight 253.
I only learned about the incident after landing when I looked at the CNN Web site on my iPhone. I'm justifiably furious that I was not notified while airborne.
Our government clearly dropped the ball. President Obama has ordered a review into the intelligence failures leading up to the attempted Christmas Day bombing by Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, but an equally important review needs to be made into how events were handled once AbdulMutallab attempted to carry out his plan.
Specifically, why weren't the actions the Transportation Safety Administration outlines in our aviation manuals initiated, and what took place inside the federal Domestic Events Network in the immediate aftermath of the terror attempt?
Following the 9/11 review, the DEN was given the task of instituting new procedures for controllers on how to communicate information about suspicious aircraft throughout the system.
The Washington-based DEN Operations Center is supposed to allow federal agencies with jurisdiction over the security of U.S. airspace to communicate information in real time. So why, after eight years and billions of dollars, was the information concerning the incident available to me only on my iPhone?
Like many commercial pilots, I flew in the military. There, each squadron maintains something called a pre-mishap plan. Basically, it's a three-ring binder with a series of actions the watch officer is supposed to take when a mishap happens.
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I don’t believe that Obama gives a rat’s @$$. THere could have been multiple “bombers” readying to explode the a/c they were on, and none of the pilots were alerted to the fact. Sickening.
I dont know but 128 air craft does not sound like very many planes, I would think there would be a lot more...
When Obama addressed the nation he said the first thing he did was to insure the safety of all planes in the air.
That was such baloney. He wasn’t even informed until 90 minutes after it happened.
The irony of O’s little daughter saying she liked that it was easier getting on a plane with her dad President.
If you have quicktime this is a good animated graphic: Animation of all flight movements tracked by FlightAware during a typical 24-hour period.
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