[tallhappy]

The tipster identified a passenger by name and said the individual had smallpox, Miles said.

If the tipster actually identified someone on the plane by name and that person was on the plane, there is more to this than a simple hoax.

Knowing the name of a passenger on a flight means the tipster either knows the person and that the person was on the flight (could still be a hoax, but could be sincere) or did some research to find out names of people on the flight to use in a hoax.

Either way it is not a typical joke bomb scare type phone call.

[Cachelot]

or did some research to find out names of people on the flight to use in a hoax.

Airlines don't just give out the names on a passenger list. You have to know, or be on the inside.

[MarMema]

And, just to be negative about this, how perfect is it that the plane lets people off in Seattle and then in New Jersey? Both coasts. And, we just completed wiping out the Taleban, and the days they warned about in the last warning are starting at sundown this evening.

[week 71]

Good point.