RAF foils airline terror plot targeting four British cities as pop song code is cracked

Sunday Express ^ | January 24, 2015 | Marco Giannangeli

[libertylover]

using the emergency "Mayday" channel in the belief they were not being monitored

??? I thought that channel was always monitored. If not, what's the use?

[Lurker]

Thank Gd for the stupidity of our enemies.

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[atc23]

Stupid people do the to clean their bottoms with their hands - don’t ever touch a muslima -

[W.]

Wow, they’re getting sloppier by the day. Instead of Dumb and Dumber, they’re growing Stupider and Stupider! Must be taking democrat pills... ;)

[dfwgator]

The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way

As soon as the Shareef was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare

As soon as the Shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed

The Shareef don’t like it
Rock the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
The Shareef don’t like it
Rock the Casbah
Rock the Casbah

[Organic Panic]

“My Dog Has Fleas”

[dr_lew]

Correction: Thank God for the vigilance of our defenders. Never gloat.

[B4Ranch]

Why in Sam Hell do we insist on telling everyone on this earth the methods we use to catch terrorists? Is it so they won’t make the same mistakes next time?

[SpaceBar]

Agree. They won’t make that mistake again.

[datura]

“Let’s use the emergency freq, no one listens to that one!”

Who taught these goat f__kers to fly?

I’m sorry, but ANY Muslim pilot should be on every watch list available, and under close surveillance.

[Cowboy Bob]

but the two foreign pilots, one of whom was flying for an airline

A bit frightening to think about. I guess this is bound to happen when the government makes it illegal to do background checks while hiring.

I notice they didn't mention the airline.

[TigersEye]

If you keep asking schmart questions like that
the gooberment is going to put lead in your drinking water.

[mumblypeg]

“...the two foreign pilots, one of whom was flying on an airline on an intelligence service watchlist...”

Huh? The airline was on a watchlist?

[mumblypeg]

Oh, now I get it. (After actually reading the story.)
Heh heh.

[Fhios]

In this case it just doesn’t ring true to my ear. Story sets my BS detector off, particularly about the Mayday channel and thinking it’s not being monitored.

It’s just not a reasonable story or perhaps it was just psyops from radical Islamic terrorists. Like Clock boy.

[pajama pundit]

Mayday Channel - otherwise known as Guard channel in US (VHF 121.5 and UHF 243.0). In the military the UHF guard channel is always monitored along with any other frequency you are talking on so that if someone is in distress (and transmitting on the emergency channel) then any military aircraft in range can hear them and contact the appropriate air traffic control (or rescue) facility. Many commercial aircraft also monitor the VHF emergency channel (mayday/guard channel) along with air traffic control facilities. So it is rather stupid to think that you can carry on a conversation over guard channel and not expect many ears to be listening. And if you are transmitting over guard (mayday) and are not talking about an emergency of some sort, then either people are going to tell you to shut up because you are interrupting normal air traffic control conversations, or they are going to be naturally suspicious.

[Chickensoup]

Did they catch them? Are they prosecuting them? Are they executing them?

Or is this another catch and release operation?

[rbg81]

Agree it is not a well written story. But there have been several instances in the last decade of Muslim commerical airline pilots going off the deep end.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Several months ago there was a poster on FreeRepublic whose husband was a pilot for a commercial airline here in America. He had a muslim, middle eastern first officer who seemed to be anti American, if I’m remembering correctly, and badmouthed America to the extent that the captain refused to leave the cockpit with him in control. They are here and they are just waiting for their chance, I firmly believe