Posted on 09/05/2019 9:01:51 PM PDT by george76
An American Airlines mechanic was arrested Thursday on a sabotage charge accusing him of disabling a navigation system on a flight with 150 people aboard before it was scheduled to take off from Miami International Airport earlier this summer.
The reason, according to a criminal complaint affidavit filed in Miami federal court: Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, a veteran employee, was upset over stalled union contract negotiations.
None of the passengers and crew on the flight to Nassau were injured because the tampering with the so-called air data module caused an error alert as the pilots powered up the planes engines on the runway July 17, according to a criminal complaint affidavit filed in Miami federal court.
As a result, flight No. 2834 was aborted and taken out of service for routine maintenance at Americas hangar at MIA, which is when the tampering with the ADM system was discovered during an inspection. An AA mechanic found a loosely connected tube in front of the nose gear underneath the cockpit that had been deliberately obstructed with some sort of hard foam material.
Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani is charged with willfully damaging, destroying or disabling an aircraft and is expected to have his first appearance in Miami federal court on Friday.
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Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani glued the foam inside the tube leading from outside the plane to its air data module, a system that reports aircraft speed, pitch and other critical flight data.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Did they notice the Alu Akbar writing in the men’s toilet? Just asking.
That’s horrific. It could have been a terrible disaster. Besides a lengthy jail term, that mechanic should be banned from ever working at an airport again.
Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani
That says it all right there!! He was a Swede!
[The reason-
Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani was upset over union contract negotiations.
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And the Atlantic Ocean is made out of grapefruit juice.]
Whats the point of the mass-scale groping and xraying at the boarding gate when the airplane mechanic is Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani ( or whatever)??? Whoever designed this entire system is at least a few big French fries short of a complete happy meal
He is just one among many. Waiting to get the word. Then there are the fuel tanker drivers plus the baggage handlers, just waiting to get the word to leave a little present when they finish their job. I never thought about it but that is another reason I would not fly today.
Guess we need to ban semi-automatic ratchets.
Yes indeed. They could have simply referred to him as "an unnamed employee, investigation still on-going. May or may have been wearing a hat."
None of the passengers and crew on the flight to Nassau were injured because the tampering with the so-called air data module caused an error alert as the pilots powered up the planes engines on the runway July 17, according to a criminal complaint affidavit filed in Miami federal court.
Feed this guy to the sharks.
Attempted murder of 100 plus people.
Has Ilhan Omar forgiven him yet, and blamed the USA?
It fits my perception of Islamic terrorism perfectly.
How stupid do these reporters really think we are?
My daughter is required to fly for her job, often several times a week. LORD please protect her, and all others flying. Amen.
Made radio news in Midwest minus the perps name. Billed as contract dispute
His name looks made-up.
“I never thought about it but that is another reason I would not fly today.”
I thought about it a lot when the concept of TSA was floated or shoved at us. I said it was smoke and mirrors and said that was it for me. I have broken that vow just twice for round trip flights since 2001. Communism and muzzyism need to be outlawed in the USA. How can you hope to contain the damage when their whole goal is to murder the culture.
Yeap... they will be getting a call from Harvard implicit bias people
“some people did some thing” - Commie Rat
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