[OldFriend]

Interesting that the airlines were the ones to issue the order to land all planes. Mr. Mineta needs to GO!!!

[Ciexyz]

Murderous inhuman creeps, that they could do that to our country. And now the DC postal worker has the deadly form of inhaled anthrax, it doesn't look good for him. All these people, at the airlines, at the post office, just doing their jobs, and this happens to them. Makes ya sick.

[snippy_about_it]

Read the article again:

Mr. Carty and Mr. Goodwin also were talking on the phone with Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, who was in a government command bunker with Vice President Dick Cheney.

Mr. Carty told Mr. Mineta that American was ordering all 162 of its planes out of the sky; United already had ordered its 122 planes down. About five minutes later, the FAA shut down the skies over the U.S. completely to all but military aircraft.

[Excuse_Me]

Mineta and Jane Garvey, both.

[ladyinred]

Perhaps I am mistaken, however didn't each airline, meaning United and American just land all of their own companies planes? I understood the government made all of the airlines in the US land and closed the airspace.

I had not seen this article, really chilling, and I appreciate the repost if that is what it was.