FBI: Man Attemps to Hijack Medical Transport Plane at New Mexico Airport

AP Wire ^ | Oct 6, 2001 | The Associated Press

[Fighting Irish]

Another unrelated and isolated incident.................

[FITZ]

Yes it has to be unrelated to the terrorism.

[atafak]

salama: arabic for well being or safety

[RickyJ]

Salama is an Egyptian name. Another terrorist strike except this time he got cold feet. Thank God!

[Inyokern]

No offense, but I think I would give this pilot a lie detector test before I would believe any of this.

[Fighting Irish]

As for me? I like my Solama on rye with some brown mustard and provolone.

[cgbg]

No terrorist has ever carried a scanner. Case closed--Not!

[jammer]

In New Jersey, "ma Salama" is a crude reference to a body part. It's true: I saw it on a Soprano episode. Or maybe not.

[Fighting Irish]

The pilot said the devise LOOKED like a scanner. Could have been a GPS. Some are quite large.

[FITZ]

salama is no Spanish word, that's for sure.

[World'sGoneInsane]

He said the man periodically repeated a word that sounded like "salama."

Is this a joke or what? This sounds like something out of a Woody Allen movie! I'm with the person who said they'd give the pilot a lie detector test. I'd throw in a psychological exam too. I'll be the first to apologize, but this sounds down right cockomamie.

[FITZ]

he struck her in the head three times with the radio device

Even if she had dents in her head?

[rwfromkansas]

Salama is close to OSama. But, in any case, I am not sure this was related to Osama because it was only one hijacker. I don't know why it did not work also.

[glock rocks]

He said the man periodically repeated a word that sounded like "salama."

There follows a short list of Arabic greetings and phrases. The transliterations are phonetic and intended to assist pronunciation. ..

Ma'a Salama - Goodbye

[World'sGoneInsane]

Sounds like "bull salama".

[Fighting Irish]

A Sky King is a small aircraft in comparison to a 757. No inflight meal OR movie aboard one these babies!

[dogbyte12]

FBI supervisory agent Doug Beldon said Friday night's incident appeared to be isolated and unrelated to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.

Weird thought. What if this guy was just trying to get out of dodge? Could be on the list of people who the feds want to question, and he had a notion of taking this plane, flying it really low down to the Mexican border?

How in the $#^@$#^%@ do they know it's an isolated incident? The guy appeared to be speaking in arabic, and he got away. So, they know it's isolated how? I bet the Bart Simpsons of the playground are going to start using that as a joke now. "Hey, wasn't me man, it was an isolated incident"