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An ISIS aircraft mechanic caught trying to disable the same system that brought down two other 737s?
American Thinker ^ | September 19, 2019 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 09/20/2019 6:26:45 AM PDT by george76

quite disturbing to learn that, contrary to what the press had .. assured us about a supposedly disgruntled aircraft mechanic who got caught trying to disable a Boeing 737, the guy had ISIS video on his cell phone.

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Doesn't everyone with labor beefs against his boss have ISIS video murders on his cell phone?

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Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani might just have been motivated by ISIS's brand of Islamism, not a woikin' man's desire for more overtime.

The gullible media reported it otherwise, always eager to look the other way on Islamist terror.

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Alani's phone also had a news story about a plane crash in Indonesia last year, with specific information about the plane's airspeed control system. The same thing he was caught tampering with.

This rather raises the question of whether those aircraft were also disabled in this manner — one in Ethiopia, the other in Indonesia, both of which have suffered from Islamist terror or been in the vicinity of it.

The two crashes not only killed hundreds of innocent people, but also wrought havoc on the airline industry, with some airlines having to ground planes, and sent Boeing's stock into a tizzy, cutting it 15% after the crashes, and wrought havoc with its orders.

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likely that he or his confederates might have engineered those 737 crashes of the past year as terrorist-admiring aircraft mechanics.

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the issue of tampering by malevolent insiders is a distinct possibility. And it must be investigated, because the lawmen have caught one of them in the act.

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It's seems to be a case for reopening these aircraft crash cases, doing intensive background checks on the mechanics who worked on these aircraft, and looking for evidence on the dark net of this kind of "inspiration" getting around.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: 737; aircraftmechanic; airline; americanairlines; avaition; aviation; boeing; boeing737; ethiopia; indonesia; iraq; isil; isis; islam; islamistterror; jihad; mechanic; terrorism
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To: Liz

Seems to me Saab should be put in a 55 gallon drum, weld the lid shut, drill a few holes in the sides (with a 556 perhaps, and drop him in the ocean, say off of scotland light ship, or where it used to be. From there he can monitor traffic into NYC harbor.


41 posted on 09/20/2019 7:26:28 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: keat

“The mere fact that someone named Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani”

One of his co-ethnics was a TSA agent that checked my ID the other day.

You need to get out and see what’s become of the USA since 9/11. The enemy is inside the gates, and the garbage that refers to themselves as our government - the McCabes, the Strozks, the Yates, on and on - are the ones doing this.

They HATE us. They ADMIRE the Islamists for their aggression and resolve to rule us. They are on THEIR side.

What’s that make them?


42 posted on 09/20/2019 7:26:34 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: george76; All

Thanks for posting.


43 posted on 09/20/2019 7:29:35 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Thommas

I’m sure you would. But in reality, it’s reasonable for a company to assume that an employee of 30yrs isn’t going to do something like this.

That being said, they need to adopt a policy of ongoing monitoring & vetting of employees


44 posted on 09/20/2019 7:31:22 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

The weak link was the pilots.


45 posted on 09/20/2019 7:31:54 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: keat

Silly you. We increased our hiring of Abdul-Majeeds tenfold just to show we are not Islamophobic.


46 posted on 09/20/2019 7:34:46 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Balding_Eagle
I can see Freepers scrambling to get to their keyboards to apologize for their bitter accusations against Boeing aircraft.

My wife and I have been frequent volunteers at the Museum of Flight on Boeing Field for many years. We live on a small airport with our two airplanes, four hang gliders and a bunch of airline pilots. My brother has been a 737 captain for Southwest Airlines for decades now.

I am no 737 expert, but I have a pretty good handle on aviation related matters. I stopped commenting on the 737 MAX crashes many months ago trying to relay what I was told by people who are 737 pilots who directly contradicted what we were being told by our oh so reliable media sources. I got tired of being shouted down by people with no aviation background, who were parroting the MSM here. This situation was an eye opening experience not about the safety of 737 aircraft, but about the gullibility of people who become self appointed aviation experts after reading MSM articles and watching news type reports without any actual experience as pilots themselves.

47 posted on 09/20/2019 7:36:43 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: Old Yeller
These savages are constantly scheming as to how they can kill large amounts of Americans. Hate is in their genes clear back to the first century.

Even before that. Ishmael is the firstborn son of Abraham by Sara's slave Hagar, and considered the father of Arabs (Muslims). In Genesis 16:12, the angel tells Hagar of Ishmael, "He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."

48 posted on 09/20/2019 7:39:07 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
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To: Thommas; keat; gaijin
Most accurate comment on the thread.


I thought we had learned a few things since 9/11.

We have learned:


49 posted on 09/20/2019 7:40:11 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: Pearls Before Swine
It sounds like the 737 Max was an accident waiting to happen.

Yes, that is what our media made it sound like. If you had friends who are 737 pilots, and truly understand how the systems work you might get a different impression.

50 posted on 09/20/2019 7:43:54 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: fireman15
You might appreciate Juan Brown's

detailed reporting.

Here is a link to his Youtube Playlist:

blancolirio - Boeing 737-8-9 MAX crashes

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51 posted on 09/20/2019 7:44:10 AM PDT by infool7 (Your mistakes are not what define you, it's how gracefully you recover from them that does.)
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To: gaijin

“THE “WAR ON TERROR” IS AN ENORMOUS, FICTIONAL ORCHESTRATION”

“There is NO War On Terror.”

That’s what I’ve been sayin’ since the days shortly after 911, and was roundly criticized, When the so-called Patriot Act was implemented. The War on Terror is actually a War To Destroy Liberty and Freedom.


52 posted on 09/20/2019 7:46:31 AM PDT by semaj (We are the People)
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To: fireman15

Re press reports: As I said in my post, I’m no aeronautic expert.

If you’ve got some 737 pilot acquaintances, please share what they’ve said.


53 posted on 09/20/2019 7:46:57 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: woodbutcher1963

Nope.

Even without sabotage, MCAS was a catastrophe waiting (but not for long) to happen.


54 posted on 09/20/2019 7:58:59 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: george76

“The gullible media reported it otherwise, always eager to look the other way on Islamist terror.”

No, they’re not “gullible”, they are complicit. They want our enemies to win, and always do everything in their power to provide aid and comfort to them.


55 posted on 09/20/2019 7:59:45 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Pearls Before Swine
If you’ve got some 737 pilot acquaintances, please share what they’ve said.

Believe me I have done that... repeatedly, and been shouted down repeatedly. Let me paraphrase one more time... The 737 MAX vertical stabilizer trim system was altered and this should have been passed on to pilots in a better way, but the 3rd world airlines and their inadequately trained pilots were still responsible for the crashes.

These modern airliners practically fly themselves from point a to point b. The pilots are there largely to verify the systems are working correctly and intervene on the very rare occasion when there is a malfunction. The problem with this is that pilots become so insulated from actually flying the plane that their skills and gut/butt level understanding of what it means to fly an aircraft can sometimes get rusty. In the case of 3rd world pilots they often have very low hours outside of simulators and never developed much in the way of butt level flying skills to begin with.

56 posted on 09/20/2019 8:10:01 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: DuncanWaring
Even without sabotage, MCAS was a catastrophe waiting (but not for long) to happen.

So says the aviation expert who has never touched the controls of an actual 737, but saw the MSNBC special report./p>

57 posted on 09/20/2019 8:17:07 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: george76

Mr Magoo still doing background checks for the air lines.


58 posted on 09/20/2019 8:18:09 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: keat

Well, since he was caught red-handed and is a Muslim, the company will feel obligated to hire about another hundred Muslims to prove that they are right-thinking on such matters as Islamophobia, racism, multiculturalism, etc. Any subsequent sabotaged planes is a small price to pay for the goal of being politically correct.


59 posted on 09/20/2019 8:58:46 AM PDT by odawg
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To: fireman15

That’s not good.


60 posted on 09/20/2019 9:13:47 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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