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All US planes being searched
Fox News Cable
| Oct 17, 2003
Posted on 10/17/2003 8:58:26 AM PDT by TomGuy
Box cutters, bleach found in 2 packages on Southwest Airlines plane.
All commercial planes in US currently being searched.
developing............
TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airlinesecurity; nathanielheatwole
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To: petercooper
Good, its a false alarm.
the democrats are deeply saddened.
To: Charlotte Corday
The whole point post 9/11 is if the cockpit door opens, all the passengers are as good as dead anyway. You don't think a pilot would be torn apart inside hearing the death screams of passengers behind the door with safely keeps him from harm, even though the alternative is just as bad? Or that an F-15 pilot wouldn't feel horrible about shooting down a plane, killing 200 but saving 3000? Just because I knew my mother was going to die in 1993 doesn't mean it didn't rip my heart out.
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posted on
10/17/2003 9:55:34 AM PDT
by
TrappedInLiberalHell
(Hillary walks into a bar. Let's hope it leaves a nice bump on her forehead.)
To: Charlotte Corday
Yup. About the best they can do is dump all fuel and "hard land" dry.
They can pick a more or less flat spot, no fuel - no fire more survivors.
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posted on
10/17/2003 9:56:54 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Name ONE person fired for 9/11...)
To: berkeleybeej
Unless the items were placed on board after the flight landed and before the maintenance folks found them... So the plane landed, and a passenger went to the bathroom and created these packages out of thin air before leaving? I would think that the packages would have to get through some security point no matter when they're found...
To: Charlotte Corday
The true flaw in the proposal is that in our freewheeling tort law system, a single security breach resulting in the loss of an aircraft could essentially bankrupt the airline.Not necessarily, and even if it did so what? Think about the number of airlines that are currently operating in bankruptcy. If anything, the ability to avoid civil liability by filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy is even more of an incentive to cut corners on security.
To: TomGuy
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posted on
10/17/2003 9:58:44 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Destro
Are they going to put household cleaners on the banned list for all passenger carriers... along with guns and golf clubs?
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posted on
10/17/2003 9:58:56 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yans Wife
(You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.)
To: petercooper
Profiling...
Any one wearing an anti-Bush, pro Dem t-shirt would be the first ones I'd profile...followed closely by anyone with media credentials!
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posted on
10/17/2003 9:59:01 AM PDT
by
marktuoni
(Machine wash warm with like colors.)
To: Labyrinthos
most of the airlines that are currently operating in bankruptcy are doing so b/c the unions have bled them dry
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posted on
10/17/2003 9:59:18 AM PDT
by
petercooper
(Proud member of the VRWC)
To: Rutles4Ever
and a passenger went to the bathroom and created these packages out of thin air before leaving?It doesn't necessarily have to be a passenger...could be ground crew personnel.
But more will be revealed in the fullness of time...
To: Solson
So a highjacker disables the front half. The back half won't stop from coming forward. It doesn't seem all that difficult to block the corridor that separates coach from first class on the smaller planes. A food cart with a couple of bodies behind it, and a hijacker with a spray bottle full of disabling bleach/ammonia mixture just waiting for someone to try to leap over it.
I'm not saying these things are probable, or likely. Only that it's folly to assume they're impossible. I personally believe that it's still quite possible to hijack a plane and crash it, even with current screening levels and passenger awareness. It just might not happen for several years. It will be a combination of complacence, a sparsely-populated flight, a well-rehearsed hijacking team, and picking the right type of plane and flight path.
Maybe I'm being pessimistic. But overconfidence is always, always worse when it comes to security.
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posted on
10/17/2003 10:01:09 AM PDT
by
TrappedInLiberalHell
(Hillary walks into a bar. Let's hope it leaves a nice bump on her forehead.)
To: TomGuy
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posted on
10/17/2003 10:02:01 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: LizardQueen
>>Would urine have enough ammonia in it to cause a reaction with the bleach? <<
Yes!!!
I know from experience. When we moved to Alaska we arrived in our new home about two days before the well was to be dug. My stepmom (nicknamed "Mrs TidyBowl Clean" by my dad) decided that we needed some sort of sanitary toilet area and so stuck a bucket of bleach in the bathroom.
I was the first to use our makeshift toilet.I had barely started when all of a sudden I couldn't breath and my eyes were burning. It was the most horrible thing I have ever experienced .
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posted on
10/17/2003 10:03:07 AM PDT
by
kancel
To: TrappedInLiberalHell
even though the alternative is just as bad?It's dreadful to contemplate, but depending upon where the hijacker points the airplane the alternative would not be just as bad, but far far worse.
To: berkeleybeej
OK, so a ground crew person stages the improvised weapons on the plane. His/her active cohorts take the next flight on that plane.
Same final results as if they smuggled the items past the TSA in hollowed out Korans.
It just requires a little more planning. Not a show stopper for a determined enemy...
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posted on
10/17/2003 10:04:32 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Name ONE person fired for 9/11...)
To: Labyrinthos
You are profiling (I like it).
To: TrappedInLiberalHell
I personally believe that it's still quite possible to hijack a plane and crash it, even with current screening levels and passenger awareness.
That old saying: Where there's a will, there's a way.
As a Nation, we've become complacent again.
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posted on
10/17/2003 10:04:47 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: kancel
I was the first to use our makeshift toilet.I had barely started when all of a sudden I couldn't breath and my eyes were burning. It was the most horrible thing I have ever experienced .
Who says FR isn't full of useful information? ;)
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posted on
10/17/2003 10:06:02 AM PDT
by
lelio
To: no one in particular
Why the box cutters?
Couldn't they just unscrew the caps?
Sounds like someone is sending a message...
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posted on
10/17/2003 10:09:26 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Name ONE person fired for 9/11...)
To: TomGuy
Stock Market fell on word of this ......but is rebounding now..
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posted on
10/17/2003 10:09:27 AM PDT
by
Dog
(Rush was right.....Donovan McNabb is overrated.)
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