Emergency Landing of Virgin Atlantic Flight Bound for Orlando FL

CNN | January 19, 2002 | self

[americalost]

CNN reported this as breaking news around 10:15 a.m. PST. Supposedly a bomb threat -- the flight is landed in Iceland at this time.

[The Raven]

Hoax

[DJ88]

They found in the toilet? A note written in lipstick? Or they found the note in the bathroom written in lipstick? Pretty quick to write it off as a "hoax"...didn't they think Richard Reid was .....never mind.

I am so tired of these people playing games..mind games...I would have beaten the living crap outta this h/she/it if I were the pilot.

Then again, maybe that's why they don't allow me out. ;-)

[jackliberty]

I don't see the purpose of a bomb threat. If you have a bomb, why tell anyone? It seems to me if you want to kill everyone you just do it, you don't talk about it. But if you don't have a bomb and want to terrorize people, you tell them that you do.

Right on..Phy-ops at work here.

[monday]

"but if the mood strikes us we'll put prisoners in with Janet Reno. And then turn out the light."

LOL... the horror! I would rather go to the electric chair!

[Amelia]

An airline spokesman said a message containing a bomb threat had been found by crew in the plane's toilet. He said local police intended to question the passengers about the hoax threat.

Sounds like either a very disturbed person, or a very stupid one.

But I guess the police have a 1 in 340 chance of figuring out who did it?

[crystalk]

But those looking for the world's most beautiful women, have just had a big bonanza fall (in their lap if they are VERY lucky)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

"The only thing a bully understands is a bloody nose!"

And if the control freaks at the FAA would allow us to carry weapons on board, we could put that principle into action!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Sounds like a movie plot, was the bomb threat written in lipstick on the mirror?

REDRUM!   REDRUM!   REDRUM!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

An airline spokesman said a message containing a bomb threat had been found by crew in the plane's toilet.

Did the hoaxer eat the message the night before?

[MississippiMan]

Jim Angle on Fox also reporting this.

Is he grinning and giggling about it like he does everything else?

MM

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I could go for that!

[TexasNative2000]

he/she/it/thing/tranny/tv/3rd sex/bisexual/curious/gay/lesbian/immigrant/citizen/leftwinger

Immigrant? My, what a broad brush. . . . .

[VaMarVet]

Jack Torrance is no longer with us so it could not have been him. I still do not trust Danny.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Good point but I thought this base was closed-under Clinton.Maybe it is running with a skeleton/limited duty crew.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Bomb Threat Diverts Jet to Iceland

LONDON (AP) - A passenger jet flying from Britain to Florida with 340 people on board was diverted to Iceland on Saturday after the crew found a bomb threat and anti-American messages scrawled on a bathroom mirror in soap.

A spokesman for Virgin Atlantic Airways indicated the incident was a hoax. ``It is a shame that people are being disrupted by someone being a bit silly,'' spokesman Ben Hall said.

The Boeing 747 landed safely at Keflavik airport, 30 miles southwest of the capital Reykjavik, about six hours after it took off from London's Gatwick airport bound for Orlando, Fla, officials said. It had 322 passengers and 18 crew on board.

Keflavik Police Commissioner Johann Benediktsson said the threat was written in soap on a mirror in a plane toilet.

``It contained the phrase 'all Americans must die' and other anti- American sentiment,'' he said.

It was not immediately known who wrote the threat. Airline spokesman Ben Hall said none of the passengers would be allowed to leave the airport until they had been questioned by police.

Dozens of fire engines and support vehicles from the nearby U.S. naval base at Keflavik were sent to the airport and ambulances in Reykjavik were placed on standby, said Fridthor Eydal, spokesman for the base.

The passengers were led into an auxiliary fire station near the terminal building, Eydal said.

``The hand luggage is going to be searched and all passengers will be searched,'' he said.

Virgin spokesman Hall said the pilot regarded the situation as a low-level security threat, but decided to divert the plane as a precaution. He said the passengers would be put up overnight in a hotel and would be on their way in the morning.

01/19/02 14:59

[GreatOne]

I don't think it's appropriate to discuss someone's virginity.

Sorry, it was the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw the headline

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

A spokesman for Virgin Atlantic Airways indicated

the incident was a hoax.

``It is a shame that people are being disrupted by someone being a bit silly,'' spokesman Ben Hall said.

[americalost]

Yes we know -- I said that myself in post #25. If I could remove a thread from the breaking sidebar, I would.

[concerned about politics]

``It contained the phrase 'all Americans must die' and other anti- American sentiment,'' he said.

Damn liberals. These peacenicks are really getting on my nerves.

[FR_addict]

``It is a shame that people are being disrupted by someone being a bit silly,''

This spokesman calls a bomb hoax being a "bit silly". I call it an act of terrorism.