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Ethiopian Airlines’ Flight 702 Squawks “HiJacking”
Airline Reporter ^ | 2/16/14 | Airline Reporter Staff

Posted on 02/16/2014 8:33:36 PM PST by CondorFlight

At 5:00pm Pacific Time, Ethiopian Flight 702, a Boeing 767-300 was flying over Sudan when it started squawking 7500. The transponder code, is supposed to indicate a “hijacking.”

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The flight, operating from Addis Abba to Rome has been confirmed by Rome Airport not to have arrived yet. As of now, it is over France, but has recently taken a steep northeast heading.

Based on flight tracking, it appears the plane is headed to Geneva. Emergency crews are standing by.

(Excerpt) Read more at airlinereporter.com ...


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To: a fool in paradise

Yep. It satisfies most of the requirements for bad legislation.

It doesn’t address the problem
It moves or expands the problem elsewhere
It restricts the freedoms of honest citizens
It criminalizes normal activity
It provides loopholes for the actual criminals
It creates, expands or further empowers bureaucracy
It gives congress the warm fuzzy feeeeeeeling that they are doing something


141 posted on 02/17/2014 7:30:28 AM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; opentalk; ..
What if that gave a hijacking and nobody reported it?

Armed Pax photo 911guns.jpg

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

142 posted on 02/17/2014 7:33:16 AM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: null and void

how life would have been different today if that had been true.


143 posted on 02/17/2014 8:14:41 AM PST by Nifster
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To: Innovative

It is very odd, since he was heading for Rome anyway.

Once in Rome, he could go wherever he wanted in the EU with a valid passport.

Could have taken a train to Geneva.

Could simply have requested asylum in Rome.


144 posted on 02/17/2014 8:15:47 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: Nifster

Yes. I also wonder how different it would be if Flt 93 did take out that nest of vipers in the Capitol building.

No Pelosi. No Reid. No Boxer. No Jackson-Lee. No ____.

And the remnant awake and filled with a terrible resolve.


145 posted on 02/17/2014 8:28:35 AM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: ltc8k6

“It is very odd, since he was heading for Rome anyway.”

Exactly — I think he must have suffered a nervous breakdown and/or literally lost his mind, over some pressures.


146 posted on 02/17/2014 9:48:52 AM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: PghBaldy
There was the EgyptAir pilot who crashed his plane, intentionally, on Halloween of 1999, IIRC.

Gameel Al-Batouti.

The Egyptians entered a state of denial about that case. They accused the US of secretly recovering the FDR, reprogramming it, and throwing it back to be publicly recovered.

147 posted on 02/17/2014 11:07:40 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: null and void
Yes. I also wonder how different it would be if Flt 93 did take out that nest of vipers in the Capitol building.

Now now. We all know that far greater resources were allocated to move our betters to safety during the attack than to actually prevent the attack beforehand.

148 posted on 02/17/2014 11:23:13 AM PST by Pan_Yan (Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
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To: a fool in paradise

I totally agree .. it was the families of those in the air who blew the whistle.

I couldn’t see any problem with it, but I had heard they were trying to stop it for some irrational reason (it was quite a while ago that I heard the rumblings).


149 posted on 02/17/2014 2:00:42 PM PST by CyberAnt (MY AMERICA: "... I'm terrified it's slipping away.")
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To: ltc8k6

The Swiss aren’t in EU. Their asylum laws are different and for some reason he preferred them.


150 posted on 02/17/2014 9:43:03 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: JohnBovenmyer

Switzerland just had a referendum about immigrants...


151 posted on 02/17/2014 9:45:11 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: GeronL

Freepers knew that, but did the perp? He may have been acting on outdated beliefs.


152 posted on 02/17/2014 9:51:39 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: JohnBovenmyer

He must had suffered horribly with dial-up internet


153 posted on 02/17/2014 9:55:32 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Thank you for the ping/bumb, Jet Jaguar.


THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "AUTHORITIES: CO-PILOT TOOK CONTROL OF EHIOPIAN AIRLINES PLANE, WANTED ASYLUM Police Arrest Co-Pilot of Flight 702 After Flight Forced to Land in Geneva" (SNIPPET: "31-year-old Haile-Medhin Abera Tegegn") (Updated February 17, 2014 9:04 a.m. ET) (Read More...)
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES: "CO-PILOT OF ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES FLIGHT ET-702 WHO HIJACKED AND DIVERTED PLANE TO GENEVA ARRESTED, SEEKS ASYLUM; PASSENGERS AND CREW EVACUATED SAFELY" by Arjun Kashyap (February 17, 2014 12:22 am) (Read More...)
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154 posted on 02/18/2014 3:07:13 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy

SP=bump in post no. 154


155 posted on 02/18/2014 3:08:01 AM PST by Cindy
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To: JohnBovenmyer

Right, it’s the Schengen Area, actually. I get the two mixed up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area


156 posted on 02/18/2014 3:45:06 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: ltc8k6

I miss those border posts...”Vous etes Americaine, monsieur? Your papairs, s’il vous plait!” Now, crossing borders has about all the quaint charm of going from Texas to Oklahoma! ;)


157 posted on 02/18/2014 8:39:02 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: lightman

“Post 9-11-01 rules: Fight back or get shot down.”

______________________________________________________

That day changed everything.


158 posted on 02/21/2014 8:22:49 AM PST by proud American in Canada (R.I.P., James Helmuth, my nephew who passed away at ten years old, from cancer, on March 23.)
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To: Frank_2001
" Your papairs, s’il vous plait!”

Votre papairs, s’il vous plait!

159 posted on 02/21/2014 12:39:53 PM PST by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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