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EgyptAir Was Aware of Threats to Security, Including One Scribbled on Plane
New York Times ^ | MAY 21, 2016 | DECLAN WALSH, NOUR YOUSSEF and KAREEM FAHIMMAY

Posted on 05/22/2016 5:39:02 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

CAIRO — In an eerie coincidence, the EgyptAir jetliner that plunged into the Mediterranean on Thursday was once the target of political vandals who wrote in Arabic on its underside, “We will bring this plane down.”

Three EgyptAir security officials said the threatening graffiti, which appeared about two years ago, had been the work of aviation workers at Cairo Airport. Playing on the phonetic similarity between the last two letters in the plane’s registration, SU-GCC, and the surname of Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, some workers also wrote “traitor” and “murderer.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Egypt; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: New York; War on Terror
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1 posted on 05/22/2016 5:39:02 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

I believe that two years ago, one of the stewardesses posted a Facebook picture of a jetliner that was crashing into the ocean, and herself walking out of the water on to a beach.

This came out a couple days ago, and people said: “It was 2 years ago! Must be a weird coincidence!”

Or maybe this was 2 years in the planning.


2 posted on 05/22/2016 5:47:37 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Nation States seem to be ending. The follow-on should not be Globalism, but Localism.)
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3 posted on 05/22/2016 5:50:26 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Nation States seem to be ending. The follow-on should not be Globalism, but Localism.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

She has a few pictures up searchable on Google. Rather pretty, and it seems not terribly Islamic.


4 posted on 05/22/2016 5:55:19 AM PDT by buwaya
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To: ClearCase_guy

strange


5 posted on 05/22/2016 6:01:17 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: ClearCase_guy
I'm trying to remember an old crash...and there was something about a stewardess.....

Seems like more than two years ago.

I'll try to find it.

6 posted on 05/22/2016 6:10:42 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ConservativeStatement

Muslim Brotherhood = Hillary


7 posted on 05/22/2016 6:12:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Not guilty.


8 posted on 05/22/2016 6:13:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Was it this incident?

Panic on US plane as flight attendant warns aircraft may crash

A female flight attendant who announced over the public address system of an American Airlines plane that the aircraft may crash was restrained by crew, passengers said.

The incident on Friday at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport led the pilot to taxi back to the gate, where police and FBI agents took the unidentified flight attendant for a psychiatric evaluation, an airport spokesman said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9136704/Panic-on-US-plane-as-flight-attendant-warns-aircraft-may-crash.html


9 posted on 05/22/2016 6:23:04 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

ABC “News” just said (Sunday, 5/22/2016) that
two in Congress said it was a mechanical problems,
and not a bomb; and then George S. went
on to mock Mr. Trump.

ABC “News” is in the tank for the DNC and Islamic
terrorists. Again.


10 posted on 05/22/2016 6:39:54 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

All Muslims must be pruged from not only the aviation industry, but everywhere else, for crying out loud.

As unrealistic as it seems, I still say Islam should be outlawed and every mosque on the planet turned into rubble.


11 posted on 05/22/2016 9:42:04 AM PDT by IChing (Nuke Mecca already)
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To: IChing

pruged = purged

sorry


12 posted on 05/22/2016 9:53:18 AM PDT by IChing (Nuke Mecca already)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
In an eerie coincidence, the EgyptAir jetliner that plunged into the Mediterranean on Thursday was once the target of political vandals who wrote in Arabic on its underside, "We will bring this plane down." Three EgyptAir security officials said the threatening graffiti, which appeared about two years ago, had been the work of aviation workers at Cairo Airport. Playing on the phonetic similarity between the last two letters in the plane's registration, SU-GCC, and the surname of Egypt's president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, some workers also wrote "traitor" and "murderer."

13 posted on 05/22/2016 3:54:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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14 posted on 05/22/2016 3:55:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Everybody knows what the pirate’s favorite letter is....?


15 posted on 05/22/2016 3:56:49 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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It’s the letter C, though some think it’s the ARRRRGGG,...but it’s the C, for everybody knows the Pirate Loves the C...... <;^g


16 posted on 05/22/2016 4:12:44 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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