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To: rightwingintelligentsia

ok. Question.
There isn’t any chance someone leaving from Madrid today and heading for Pittsburgh would have any reason to be on that plane?
right?


3 posted on 08/20/2008 8:22:38 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Scotswife
There isn’t any chance someone leaving from Madrid today and heading for Pittsburgh would have any reason to be on that plane? right?

Doubtful. I understand the plane was heading for Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.

5 posted on 08/20/2008 8:24:09 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Scotswife

Is someone you know flying in from Madrid?


7 posted on 08/20/2008 8:25:47 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: Scotswife
There isn’t any chance someone leaving from Madrid today and heading for Pittsburgh would have any reason to be on that plane? right?

MD82s don't fly trans-oceanic routes. Not enough range.

9 posted on 08/20/2008 8:26:26 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Scotswife

Big Ben?


10 posted on 08/20/2008 8:26:37 AM PDT by library user
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And Spanair doesn’t fly outside of Europe.


12 posted on 08/20/2008 8:27:58 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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Anybody flying to the US from Madrid today might be delayed, but otherwise ok. Most US-bound flights leave in the morning or early afternoon, and the crash didn’t occur until 2:15 or so, meaning that most US bound flyers would already have left. The plane that crashed was going to the Canary Islands.


16 posted on 08/20/2008 8:31:19 AM PDT by livius
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To: Scotswife
There isn’t any chance someone leaving from Madrid today and heading for Pittsburgh would have any reason to be on that plane? right?

It sounds like an awfully small plane to be making a trans-Atlantic flight.

21 posted on 08/20/2008 8:47:39 AM PDT by Lou L
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To: Scotswife
There isn’t any chance someone leaving from Madrid today and heading for Pittsburgh would have any reason to be on that plane?

This Spanair flight was from Madrid to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. It departed from a completely different concourse at the Madrid airport. International long distance flights have their own concourse (2) at Madrid.

24 posted on 08/20/2008 8:56:45 AM PDT by BluH2o
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To: Scotswife

Absolutely not. 120 degree wrong direction.


26 posted on 08/20/2008 9:02:47 AM PDT by MindBender26 (Leftists stop arguing when they see your patriotism, your logic, your CAR-15 and your block of C4.)
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