Posted on 05/04/2010 1:13:42 PM PDT by txroadkill
HOUSTON - A small piece of luggage exploded at Bush Intercontinental Airport on Tuesday afternoon. No injuries were reported.
According to a spokeswoman for the Houston Airport System, the luggage exploded shortly after the jet landed around 2 p.m.
Ground crews said they noticed something strange about the luggage and were working to remove it when the explosion occurred.
While no injuries were reported
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxhouston.com ...
If your kids are over 16 there could be some chance of that.
Younger and they would not be likely to know anything IMO.
May God protect us from this incompetant Marxist thug. There could be no worse combination of characteristics in one human being.
Luggage malfunction?
AirTran Airways 681 RSW to MKE
Status Scheduled - On Time
Departure RSW (Southwest Florida International Airport) May 04, 2010 18:17
Arrival MKE (General Mitchell Airport) May 04, 2010 20:15
Carrier FL (AirTran Airways)
Aircraft Type 717
Departure Arrival
Sched Estim Actual Delay Sched Estim Actual Delay
Published 18:17 20:15
Gate 18:17 18:17 20:15 20:29
Runway 18:26 18:26 20:01 19:53
Note to self, only carry large luggage when traveling via Bush Airport (TX) if I don’t want my luggage to explode.
You’re pushing back from the gate at 18:17 and schduled to be on the runway at 18:26.
Scheduled arrival is 20:01, estimated is 19:53 (8-minutes early)
Bald White Guy strikes again!
Seems to have been “thwarted”, then. (Holder) Everything worked the way it should. (Napolitano) An isolated incident by right wing extremists. (0bama).
Nothing to see here.
Either these terrorists are incomptent or else God is watching over us.
Oh, so just typical airline baggage handling...
They are unwilling to admit "the system didn't work" when political correctness dictated that they look the other way when Nadil Hasan made death threats against non-muslim infidels and contacted Al Qaeda before shouting Allah Akbar and gunning down 4 dozen men, women, and children.
Why thank you! You should work for Airtran!
btt
It must have had a Tea Party bumper sticker on it or something.
We use USMC bumper stickers on ours. That would probably do it.
I wuns lost a hose. It was hart braking.
Hopefully bacause the "smarter" useful idiots were killed during the Bush administration.
Bambi is letting them regroup.
I work in air cargo, but not for Air Tran.
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