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 ...
Hey...Lighten up ! It was merely a typical moozlum being a typical moozlum .
Damned Amish and their overly long, hard to pronounce last names.
Security and airplane maintenance? Wow! We is truly in deep doo- doo
Yeah. You noticed the third rail too, eh?
“Nothing to see here, folks, move on, move on. “
Yeah this is the reason.......not.
Wolves almost always travel in packs. That’s what makes them such formidable predators.
A lone wolf is a starved-to-death wolf eventually.
They need to scrub ALL airport workers and mechanics now.
AlKiyDa still exists... And ISIS, too.
Theres no such thing as a lone wolf attack and/or coincidences involving our enemies, the Muslims and Liberals.
Thank you.
Refused to fly after the implementation of TSA as I don’t much cotton to be treated like a criminal.
If I’m not the pilot, mechanic, and inspector, I won’t be on the plane. My only exception is sky-diving.
So driving it will be as the scenery is much more spectacular from the ground.
Amen!!
Why would “Abdul” be allowed anywhere near an airliner? (Discriminatory ... you bet! People have such short memories ...)
Uh-huh. I see. It was just a case of an overzealous union member. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Indeed. I knew before looking that the culprit would have an arabic-sounding name.
No he should be executed.
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Can one get the death penalty for attempted murder? It seems like no one wants to execute anyone anymore. But if so, yes, he should be.
I dont know
Attempting murder 150 times?
The law is wrong, these people need to die.
Sounds Amish.
WOW! Thanks for that ping! Thank God someone was alert and made the plane stay on the ground!
Attempting murder 150 times?
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When you put it that way, maybe there is a chance.
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