Suspects Removed at Gunpoint From Jets (NEW ATTEMPT)

AP ^ | September 14, 2001, 4:45 AM EDT | By JOHN SOLOMON

[Tazlo]

Copy cats?

I've been wondering how anyone could be so dumb.

The only explanation that makes any sense is that they probably screwed up on Tuesday and would rather face a lifetime in a US prison rather than go back and admit to Bin Laden that they failed.

[NCSteve]

Fox News is now reporting that Senator Joseph Biden says this story is crap.

Story here

[pray4liberty]

Three males refused to disembark and argued with the flight crew, who called airport security. The men vanished before security arrived, the source said.

And they let them get away? Where the hell are they now?

[ravingnutter]

The incidents caused the region's three major airports _ Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark, N.J. -- to close again just hours after service was restored.

If I had caught those people, I would have strangled them with my bare hands...I spent hours this morning having to re-route a flight to Switzerland for one of our employees...do you know how hard it is to get a flight out of the country that doesn't go through NY? AAAAARRRRGGGGGHHH!!!!!!

[Bogie]

#30

Yeah, I noticed that.

[Cindy]

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&um=1&tab=wn&q=%22Flight+23%22&btnG=Search+News

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stepping back in time...

http://www.house.gov/list/hearing/il10_kirk/news040414_flight.html

Congressman Kirk in the News
Daily Herald, April 14, 2004
“Suburban Flight Dispatcher to Recount Worst Day”
By Jon Davis
Daily Herald Staff Writer

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Perhaps, but Kirk is adamant that Ballinger did save the passengers and crew of United Flight 23, which on Sept. 11 was about to depart from Newark, N.J., to Los Angeles. Kirk believes Flight 23 was going to be commandeered.

Thanks to Ballinger’s quick call, the flight crew told passengers it had a mechanical problem and immediately returned to the gate.

Later, Ballinger was told six men initially wouldn’t get off the plane. Later, when they did, they disappeared into the crowd, never to return. Later, authorities checked their luggage and found copies of the Qu’ran and al-Qaida instruction sheets.

“I felt good about that one,” Ballinger said.

Kirk admits it’s speculation, but said he believes “there are 200 people walking around today because of Ed Ballinger.”

The suspect passengers were never found, and are probably still at large, Kirk said.”

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stepping back in time...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1765390/posts

United Flight 23 on 9-11
History Channel | 1-6-2007 | Self
Posted on 01/10/2007 10:21:56 AM PST by TruthWillWin

[piasa]

Separately, new information emerged about Tuesday's events. A law enforcement source told the AP that the FBI was investigating an altercation at Kennedy on Tuesday, and trying to understand whether that incident might have been an aborted hijacking attempt.
Tuesday's incident occurred about 9 a.m. -- around the same time two hijacked jet airliners crashed into the World Trade Center towers. After passengers had boarded United Airlines Flight 23, bound for Los Angeles, officials told them it had been canceled
Three males refused to disembark and argued with the flight crew, who called airport security. The men vanished before security arrived, the source said....

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UPDATE

To: Oorang

stepping back in time...

http://www.house.gov/list/hearing/il10_kirk/news040414_flight.html

Congressman Kirk in the News
Daily Herald, April 14, 2004
“Suburban Flight Dispatcher to Recount Worst Day”
By Jon Davis, Daily Herald Staff Writer

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Perhaps, but Kirk is adamant that Ballinger did save the passengers and crew of United Flight 23, which on Sept. 11 was about to depart from Newark, N.J., to Los Angeles. Kirk believes Flight 23 was going to be commandeered.

Thanks to Ballinger’s quick call, the flight crew told passengers it had a mechanical problem and immediately returned to the gate.

Later, Ballinger was told six men initially wouldn’t get off the plane. Later, when they did, they disappeared into the crowd, never to return. Later, authorities checked their luggage and found copies of the Qu’ran and al-Qaida instruction sheets.

“I felt good about that one,” Ballinger said.

Kirk admits it’s speculation, but said he believes “there are 200 people walking around today because of Ed Ballinger.”

The suspect passengers were never found, and are probably still at large, Kirk said.”

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Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1765390/posts

United Flight 23 on 9-11
History Channel | 1-6-2007 | Self
Posted on 01/10/2007 10:21:56 AM PST by TruthWillWin

Saw a documentary, “Grounded on 9-11” on the History Channel a few days ago that mentioned something major about 9-11 that I have not heard before.

At 9:00AM on 9-11 United Airlines sent to all planes a warning message regarding the other hijacks. On United Flight 23, that was on the runway, the captain decided on his own not to take off. He fakes a mechanical problem and returns to the gate!

When the passengers were asked to exit the plan three Middle Eastern men, or possibly as many as six, refuse to follow the request to deplane. Security is called but they flee before it arrived. Later, authorities check their luggage and find copies of the Koran and al-Qaeda instruction sheets.

If the information on the documentary is accurate another hijacking may have been prevented.

Why have not we heard more about this?

What has been done to find the possible terrorists?

Were there security camera pictures of these individuals?

If so why were they not shown to the public for possible identification and capture?

1 posted on 01/10/2007 10:21:58 AM PST by TruthWillWin

1,186 posted on 01/29/2008 7:44:16 PM PST by Cindy

[TruthWillWin]

Interesting. Thanks for the bump.

[Mr. Jeeves]

"Anyone with dark skin or who spoke with an accent was taken aside and searched," passenger Mike Glass of Seattle told the Times. "And then they went to any male with too much facial hair."

How much work did the Times have to do to extract (or manufacture) that quote? I wonder if they offered this guy a job as a reporter? ;)