Breaking - Southwest Airline plane lands in Houston -bomb threat

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[TexasNative2000]

ABC News Breaking News Item - A Southwest Airlines jet has been diverted to Houston Hobby Airport due to a bomb threat. No details . . . .breaking news.

[Paleo Conservative]

Southwest Flight 21 from DFW to Corpus Christi; diverted to Houston Hobby due to note on-board.

Two problems with this. First Soutwest flies from Love Field (DAL) not DFW. Second. All Soutwest flights from DAL to CRP have a scheduled stop at HOU anyway. Every outbound flight from DAL is DAL-HOU-CRP. The inbound flights are CRP-HOU-DAL.

[Finger Monkey]

Now the government is going to put paper on the list of banned items.

[Paleo Conservative]

According to post #5 on an Airliners.net thread about this incident, CNN says a 757 flying from DFW to CRP was diverted to HOU. Southwest has never flown a 757. Currently they only have 737's.

http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/2257344/

[PAR35]

Southwest Flight 21 from DFW to Corpus Christi; diverted to Houston Hobby due to note on-board.

No as to point of origin, and probably no as to destination. I believe all of the Love-Corpus flights stop in Houston on the way down. So a stopover wouldn't have been a diversion.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I haven't found them to be any worse than United. Now there's a worthless airline.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Bizjournals picked it up early:
http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/050805/1146467.html?.v=1

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Islamokazis don't leave warning notes on board. Probably another little bebop queen that can't bear to be away from her boyfriend for a week.

[PAR35]

Confusion about the plane type, airline, departure city and routing, but otherwise we should assume that the story is reliable?

[Redcloak]

I'm glad that I showered this morning.

[kx9088]

Reason = American Airlines.

Competitor tactics.

??

[TexasNative2000]

I know, I know; Love Field, not DFW. I was typing what CNN was reporting (always a mistake to assume accuracy) and didn't catch myself.

[Labyrinthos]

AQ and its affiliates don't give specific warnings.

[Rutles4Ever]

Did anyone on the plane look like this?

[Paleo Conservative]

This is the first time one of my aerospace pings has been about a news story involving my home town.

If you want on or off my aerospace ping list, please contact me by Freep mail not by posting to this thread.

[john316]

Glad I'm leaving early today, Hobby is just across the street.

[Lx]

It's (bomb threat) from the other airlines that are bleeding cash!
Just kidding. It's hopefully some whacko and not the real deal. These days, they have to take the vaguest threat as real.

[adam_az]

"So they'd rather blow up Houston than Corpus Christi?"

It's BUSH International Airport! Of course. ;)

I'm flying through there later. Oh joy.

[Paleo Conservative]

There isn't a flight 21 from DFW to CRP, and it isn't flown on a 757.

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 Flight Status Information

Select a Flight Number to view its current status.

Departure Date:	Friday, August 5, 2005
Departure City:	Corpus Christi (CRP)
Arrival City:	Dallas (DAL)

Flight Number	Scheduled Departure	Scheduled Arrival	Stops
10	7:25am	9:25am	1
16	8:55am	10:55am	1
26	11:20am	1:25pm	1
38	2:10pm	4:25pm	1
50	5:10pm	7:25pm	1
60	7:40pm	9:55pm	1

[mikhailovich]

Is ABC News flying in to interview the freedom fighter who wrote the letter?

[hsmomx3]

I am leaving tomorrow on a SW flight and returning home early next week, only to head out again in mid-week.