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Test run? Diversion? Considering the date and cities involved, this is very disturbing.
1 posted on 12/25/2009 11:59:20 AM PST by Cyberrat
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Yikes. Glad I wasn’t on that flight.


2 posted on 12/25/2009 12:00:01 PM PST by Schnucki
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Sheer madness

Merry Christmas in spite of it all


3 posted on 12/25/2009 12:00:03 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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Somebody’s got some ‘splainin’ to do.


4 posted on 12/25/2009 12:03:15 PM PST by deaconjim (Because He lives...)
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the only place fire is more dangerous than onboard a ship, is onboard a plane...

and nobody beat the pizz out of him???

5 posted on 12/25/2009 12:03:29 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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Going to Michigan...........


6 posted on 12/25/2009 12:04:27 PM PST by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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Muzzie? Let's see...Amsterdam to Detroit....waiting for a Harry Carey call....

"It's a long fly ball! It might be, it could be....!!!!"

11 posted on 12/25/2009 12:07:52 PM PST by stboz
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They were shooting a sequel to...


16 posted on 12/25/2009 12:12:58 PM PST by HangnJudge
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What an idiot!


17 posted on 12/25/2009 12:14:11 PM PST by Bobalu (I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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How does a person not only get fireworks onboard on their person (presumably), but also the means to ignite them? (I guess it could have been a party popper or the like.)


20 posted on 12/25/2009 12:21:06 PM PST by stboz
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One passenger from the flight was taken to the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, hospital spokeswoman Tracy Justice said.

Lets hope that this is the perp.

21 posted on 12/25/2009 12:21:30 PM PST by notpoliticallycorewrecked (According to the MSM, I'm a fringe sitting, pajama wearing Freeper)
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I have flown that leg going out of Europe many times. They always prescreen with interviews and xray at the gate. Interesting... still all members may be recipients of the ...

Freakin Flyer Club

25 posted on 12/25/2009 12:30:39 PM PST by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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Wow. I find it hard to believe that someone managed to smuggle fireworks on board a plane at Amsterdam's Schipol Airport.

Shortly after 9/11, I went to Holland with my wife. On my return trip out of Schipol, they swabbed my bags and backpack and picked up trace amounts of gunpowder on the inside of my backpack that a week earlier I'd used while target shooting in the USA to carry back home my fired brass cartridge cases. They inspected the lining of the bag thoroughly before they let me continue, and I thought it was over until a Dutch government security agent (who reminded us precisely of the young SS officer at the train station from 'Schindler's List') came along at checkpoint #2 and gave me a rapid fire twenty-question rundown on what bags were mine, please point at them specifically, who packed them, to swear before God they're mine, what's my destination, where I'd been in Europe, what's my grandfather's middle name, would I object to being X-rayed up the wazoo, and so on. Once he was done questioning me, he opened them up and inspected them right there.

I thought it was just me that he was singling out, but he did that to everyone on the flight headed to New York's JFK.

I can't believe that they missed fireworks. Oh, I can believe that the TSA would miss fireworks, but not at Amsterdam Schipol. There were police walking patrolling in pairs of two with Hk MP5 submachine guns just looking like they wish something would happen so they could earn their pay.

26 posted on 12/25/2009 12:30:47 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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Fireworks set off aboard airliner

Whoa, that's a lot of shorts with skid marks on that flight.......LOL

29 posted on 12/25/2009 12:34:23 PM PST by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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so much for airport security......


31 posted on 12/25/2009 12:35:34 PM PST by Sub-Driver (Proud member of the Republican wing of the Republican Party)
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For some reason my computer absolutely refuses to open that CNN page at the link. The computer may be smarter than me and refuse to go to CNN. Is there a FOX version of the story?


33 posted on 12/25/2009 12:37:29 PM PST by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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Was he given the Madoff “Fall out of bed” treatment?


36 posted on 12/25/2009 12:42:37 PM PST by teletech (Say NO to RINOS!)
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There’s “fireworks” precedent - also from Amsterdam.


37 posted on 12/25/2009 12:44:02 PM PST by Moe Tzadik
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What, it's not customary to celebrate the successful conclusion of a trans-Atlantic flight by setting off fireworks? I didn't know.
38 posted on 12/25/2009 12:44:21 PM PST by kittykat77
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What a joker, that Achmed the Dead Terrorist.

[Silence!..I keel you!]


44 posted on 12/25/2009 12:52:17 PM PST by twister881
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Its about time the "NEW" era of aircraft is made available to the public, dual cockpits insure redundant safety and the fuselage has an improved climate control system.
45 posted on 12/25/2009 12:55:04 PM PST by Eye of Unk (Phobos, kerdos, and doxa, said the Time Traveler. “Fear, self-interest, and honor.”)
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