Developing Story: Military Jets Escorting Passenger Jet From Dubai to JFK Airport

Fox news Alert ^ | 29 OCT 10 | dcbryan1

[DCBryan1]

Military Jets escorting passenger jet to JFK airport. Hand off to CAP US F15s from VA from NATO CF-18s. DEVELOPING!

[brytlea]

They just said no known threat. I’m sorry, but are they wasting a huge amount of my tax $$ for nothing?

[roses of sharon]

we thwarted a terrorist attack

What did I miss...WERE their any bombs found?? Also, if this plane was dangerous they would NEVER let it land in the US.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Obviously those people in Yemen never heard of Staples..They have every printer cartridges known to man over there

[MichaelNewton]

That Spanish situation was different. The ruling government blamed the Basque. When they found out it was AQ, the voters turned on them and voted for the opposition.

[McGruff]

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I’m just saying what the marxist in chief will say..he will try to milk this for all it’s worth

[halo66]

Yeah...the FBI also said that the Ft. Hood shooting was not terrorist related!

[tcrlaf]

“Let loose the October Surprise.”

NEVER LET A GOOD CRISIS GO TO WASTE....

[WayneS]

Wow.

When I was in CAP all we had was a couple of Cessna 150s...

[sijay]

“I usually don’t believe in this conspiracy BS but something just isn’t right here.”

I was wondering if I was the only skeptical one regarding this. I couldn’t help but think that suspicious things like this happen all the time and that it is just a matter of when and if they decide to make the information public. The timing of this doesn’t quite smell right, does it?

[blondee123]

Didn't we all expect something like this, Zero has nothing, so why not plan a terrorist attack to mess with the election on Tuesday?

He's SO TRANSPARENT!

[Blueflag]

That’s (starting in VA) a long outbound leg to fly an intercept/escort.

Don’t we have a “TAC” base in Maine anymore? ( I don’t speak USAF/ Homeland Defense )

[brytlea]

Naw, surely he just forgot to wear his panties so he can’t get them wadded up.

[DCBryan1]

I wonder what the Slurpee-in-Chief is doing right now? Smoking dope, or smoking someones poll ;)

[Yaelle]

Is Juan Williams on that flight? And is he nervous?

Thank you for this laugh!

[rockinqsranch]

This has the odor of a desperate Democrat about it.

[FourPeas]

Scrambling jets for a package which is what Shep is saying....doesn’t make sense. If the package explodes, what are the jets supposed to do? If it doesn’t, what are they supposed to do?

[gundog]

WTH?

It's October. Surprise!!

[Velveeta]

CNN has live picture awaiting landing of the flight.

[dforest]

So far a whole lot of hype and nothing else. It did steal the Friday news cycle and kept election coverage next to nil.