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British Airways Flight Detained at Dulles Airport, Passengers Being Quizzed by Security
Local Channel 5
| Wednesday, December 31, 2003
| Kristinn
Posted on 12/31/2003 7:11:32 PM PST by kristinn
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To: tubebender
Please aim your guns toward the east ... ... um ... okay.
To: oceanview
they have one rolled up next to the plane and stairs attached to it.That means they wanted them to get off the plane without even transiting the terminal. Down the stairs, into the "people mover" and straight to customs. That's not normal procedure at Dulles.
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posted on
12/31/2003 8:12:53 PM PST
by
angkor
To: nuffsenuff
Home made cannon shooting golf balls at your house ?
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posted on
12/31/2003 8:12:54 PM PST
by
tubebender
(Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see...)
To: sfRummygirl
BUSHWOOD A DUMP?!?!
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posted on
12/31/2003 8:12:55 PM PST
by
Benrand
To: Domestic Church
At Simpson's by chance?
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posted on
12/31/2003 8:13:21 PM PST
by
Humidston
(Two Words: TERM LIMITS)
To: bcoffey; Dog; oceanview; PhilDragoo; Alamo-Girl
Why else would they want to confirm seat assignments? Another reason could be that they identified a particular passenger with a deadly, contagious disease (e.g., Ebola) and want to know who was seated nearby. You got the idea.
:-(
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posted on
12/31/2003 8:13:42 PM PST
by
maestro
To: Benrand
Can I eat your fat?
SPAULDING!!!
To: STARWISE
American authorities in the last week ordered a United States-bound flight from Mexico to turn around in midair Whoa! Is this new? I hadn't read this!
Prairie
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posted on
12/31/2003 8:13:52 PM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(President George W. Bush....most assuredly, MY President!)
To: tubebender
LOL!!
But you can't see my house from the course... There's woods in between. It would take a really lucky shot..
Funny though!
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To: bwteim
thanks!
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posted on
12/31/2003 8:15:18 PM PST
by
cajungirl
(I adore the Brits!! Tony Blair is my hero!!)
To: prairiebreeze
Its new..... look on the news forum someone just posted it in a thread from the New York Times.
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posted on
12/31/2003 8:15:34 PM PST
by
Dog
(Go Eagles!!!!!)
To: kristinn
Nobody is buried in Grant's Tomb. It's above ground, so technically Grant and his wife are interred there :-).
To: Benrand
"You'll get NOTHING and LIKE IT!"
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posted on
12/31/2003 8:15:52 PM PST
by
sfRummygirl
(SAVE TERRI SHINDLER SCHIAVO...www.terrisfight.org)
To: bcoffey
contagious disease (e.g., EbolaAways a subject sure to send shivers down the spine.
Prairie
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posted on
12/31/2003 8:15:52 PM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(President George W. Bush....most assuredly, MY President!)
To: Johnny_Cipher
"why would they need the passengers to prove seat assignments"
Either to see who might have placed something or to see who might have been exposed to something?
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posted on
12/31/2003 8:15:55 PM PST
by
Domestic Church
(AMDG...off to bed 5AM wake up)
To: bwteim
"Oh no, you're in for half an eighty thousand"
To: Dog
"
They are looking for a specific passenger."
How do you know?
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posted on
12/31/2003 8:16:33 PM PST
by
cibco
(Xin Loi... Saddam)
To: Domestic Church
True (assuming there were empty seats) I guess.
To: freedumb2003
British Airways Passengers Questioned
Thursday January 1, 2004 3:46 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI and Homeland Security Department officials boarded a British Airways jet shortly after it landed at Dulles International Airport Wednesday night and detained passengers for about three hours, officials said.
Transportation Safety Administration spokeswoman Jennifer Marty said passengers aboard Flight 223 from London's Heathrow Airport to Dulles were questioned aboard the plane, which landed at 7:20 p.m. EST. Officials began allowing passengers off the plane around 10:30 p.m.
Homeland Security Department spokeswoman Rachel Sunbarger said the baggage on board the flight was undergoing additional screening.
The plane was being kept several hundred feet from the terminal just as a precaution until questioning was finished, an official said on condition of anonymity.
The official declined to say what specifically led to the quarantine of the plane, but cited the recent increase in the U.S. terror alert status.
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posted on
12/31/2003 8:16:38 PM PST
by
kcvl
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