<< When I step onto the plane, I look around and select my “posse.”
You are a wise man, freedumb2003. Thanks also to Rockie’s for a great post - y’all are both dead on! Freepers might be interested in my post #47 about a month ago:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401842/posts
Note: QBFimi retired as a B-767 Captain for a major airline (with over 30 years of airline service). He was involved in security issues both before and after 9/11, and is currently a sworn officer.
Dear QBFimi:
re: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401842/posts (#47)
What an incredibly scary story! This was at DEN-ABQ, and only a few short months ago? May 2009?
Next time I’m on a flight, any flight, I’ll be more aware of who is flying with me.
That sounds just horrible. Like he wasn’t at all concerned about consequences.
erg - see #10
thanks for the info
Good to know. Thanks for the info.
Thanks for bringing back that post .. worth repeating.
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To: STARWISE
In May of 2009 my wife was unexpectedly hospitalized in Albuquerque, NM. I had been teaching a firearms course in Jackson Hole, Wyoming when I was called. In a panic, and still dressed in my security company’s uniform, I rushed to the airport and caught a flight which connected through Denver. In the waiting area for the DEN-ABQ flight, I noticed two young (in their late 20s to early 30s) Muslim men, their AMERICAN wives, and several children.
The men were in western dress. Although the wives were covered head-to-toe with only their eyes and Nike sports shoes showing, they were clearly recognizable by their Midwestern American accents.
When I boarded the flight, I identified myself to the flight attendant as a retired airline employee who had once been a sworn officer, and as one who would be willing to help in the event of a disruption in the cabin. Shortly before takeoff, one of the Muslim men (he was seated next to an overwing exit) got up and began walking his son to the front of the plane.
When ordered to sit down by the Flight Attendant, and to ring his call button “if this was an emergency”, he did so.
The F/A called the cockpit, then got up and walked back (with all passenger eyes on her). Seems “the child had to go to the bathroom”. She came up to me and asked “how long before we takeoff?” I was sitting in row 3 at the window, and could see we were #3 in line, with #1 on the runway. When I told her “3-4 minutes”, she went back; the man decided to wait until after takeoff.
As soon as the seat belt sign was turned off (5-6 minutes into the flight) one of the women came forward, entered the lav, and did not lock the door. When she had been in there for about a minute, the man and the child passed my row and sat down in seat 1C with the child on his lap. After another minute or two, the woman exited and the man and child entered the lav and locked the door. After several minutes they exited and returned to their seats.
Several minutes later the F/A came over to me, looking rather shaken, and showed me two razor blades wrapped in paper, and said “we found these under seat 1C”. Had I not been in the process of rushing to the emergency room, I would have made every passenger aware of what went on during the flight.
Upon landing, no one met the aircraft, and, after several minutes of watching their group casually waiting for their bags at the claim area, I gave up and headed off to the hospital.
I am left with the suspicion that my uniform (and me being mistaken for an armed police officer) may have cooled any ideas they might have had.
47 posted on Monday, December 07, 2009 12:03:20 AM by QBFimi (When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401842/posts?q=1&;page=47#47