[randog]

“The notion that the US can bounce the rest of us into cancelling flights all the time needs to be addressed,” said one British minister.

You don't have to cancel the flight--you just can't land it in the US. Other than that, fly the damn thing all you want.

On another note, I guess we'll start hearing the leftists praising Bush. After all, he knowingly let 9/11 happen, but stopped this catastrophe in its tracks.

[vbmoneyspender]

There are signs of tension between London and Washington over the extent to which Britain follows every command from the United States after terror alerts. "The notion that the US can bounce the rest of us into cancelling flights all the time needs to be addressed," said one British minister.

I wonder who this British minister is and if he seriously questions the United States' right to control its own airspace?

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[Bubba_Leroy]

I just don't see how anyone can hijack a plane and take over the cockpit again.

Before 9-11, the correct procedure to follow in the event of a hijack was to cooperate with the hijackers and do whatever they said. The worst thing that would happen was you would be forced to land in Cuba or wherever, and you might be stuck on the plane for a day or two while the hijackers tried to negotiate the release of some terrorist out of prison.

After 9-11, you have to assume that any hijacker intends to use the plane as a missle. The correct procedure to follow is for everyone on the plane to beat the crap out of the hijackers. Even if a hijacker manages to get a gun on board, they can't shoot everyone and everyone knows that they are dead of the hijackers aren't stopped.

Also, even if hijackers start executing passengers one at a time, the crew knows not to let them in the cockpit. Instead, the crew will depresurize the plane and start doing dives and rolls to bounce the hijackers off of the walls.

The biggest airplane danger post 9-11 is that terrorists will simply get a bomb on board and blow it up.

[rs79bm]

It's good to know that we've uncovered this and prevented catastrophe.

[mware]

By the way I am tracking BA flight 223 right now at this web site.

http://www.cheaptickets.com/trs/cheaptickets/flighttracker/flight_tracker_graphic.xsl

It is presently over Canada, at 40,000 ft. traveling SW at 500 miles per hour.

[Endeavor]

Until the Brits can figure out how people are getting onto the tarmac and lodging themselves unnoticed into landing gear hubs, I don't think we can too highly praise British airport security.

[Billthedrill]

One of the passengers who failed to turn up was a trained pilot from the Middle East who has since disappeared and cannot be traced...

Oh, I'm sure that's just a coincidence...

Note to self - purchase train tickets tomorrow...

[Prime Choice]

One of the passengers who failed to turn up was a trained pilot from the Middle East who has since disappeared and cannot be traced, according to US intelligence sources.

Well if that statement doesn't have a high Sphincter Factor, I don't know what does. Yikes.

[blam]

"One of the passengers who failed to turn up was a trained pilot from the Middle East who has since disappeared and cannot be traced, according to US intelligence sources. "

How many lives were saved...this all looks legit.

[Jodi]

thanks for your post

SCREW YOU, AL QUEADA!

[Thud]

ping

[doug from upland]

I wonder what they have done about food service handlers having access to the planes without always going through security.

[Mr. Mojo]

The informant said that as well as targeting Washington, New York and Los Angeles, the terrorists were planning to launch a strike on an oil terminal in Alaska.

That's one way to get the ecofreaks on their side. .....not a bad recruiting scheme.

[Brad’s Gramma]

BTTT for later

[ellery]

Here's what I can't understand about this whole spate of cancellations: we know that AQ's MO is multiple strikes. This article seems to confirm that plan. In addition, the AQ threats this time have specifically mentioned strikes that will exceed 9/11.

SO, how is it that cancellation of one flight at a time interrupts their plans? If they were doing multiple, simultaneous strikes, the rest of the plan would just go ahead, right?

[Bon mots]

We should also be thinking of another possibility for the nasty people...

There have recently been stories of old jets going missing, especially in Africa.

It wouldn't be too far-fetched for some of these creeps to attach air-to-air missiles to one of these old planes and use them to shoot down an international flight somewhere over the sea. They could then set the transponder of the shooter-plane to show up on radar as the plane it just shot down, and act accordingly. They could then enter the airspace of the destination country unmolested, having switched places with a legitimate plane.

One of the planes which has gone missing was a tanker, I believe... could carry all kinds of nasty things, if not just plain old jet fuel...