Delta flight landed at Logan after a passenger reported hearing a beeping sound

http://www.whdh.com ^ | October 17, 2002

[Living Free in NH]

A Delta flight has landed at Logan after a passenger reported hearing a beeping sound coming from an overhead storage bin. All the passengers were evacuated safely. Emergency personnel checked the overhead bin, and removed a pair of sneakers which investigators are now examining

[DocCincy]

The last flight I was on, the guy sitting next to me was so huge and gross that had he done so, I probably would have screamed 'gun' just to get them to land the plane and get me off the thing ASAP.

[texasbluebell]

Time for a:

[mombonn]

Fox News just reported the sneakers belong to a kid. They make some sort of sound.

[Heartlander2]

CNN article on this:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/Northeast/10/17/flight.grounded/

[Portnoy]

That was actually a pretty good movie....

[tracer]

The burning question: Is Chicken Little a Frequent Flyer??

[LiberalsWorstNightmare]

Overhead Storage Bin (Laden)

[ChadGore]

Prediction: The slowly dieing laptop battery in the overhead above seat 15C.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Fox News just reported the sneakers belong to a kid. They make some sort of sound.

You can't buy this kind of advertising.

[weegee]

But no one can ever remember if they are supposed to cut the blue or the red wire.

[NittanyLion]

Fox News just reported the sneakers belong to a kid. They make some sort of sound.

Is it Richard Reid's kid?

[Thinkin' Gal]

Imagine the panic one of these could generate:

[Alouette]

Yesterday I was honored with "special" attention as I was about to board a flight to New York. In addition to myself (middle-aged, red-headed ultra-Orthodox Jew) a young female African-American, a middle-aged white male, and two white female flight attendants were also requested to step out of line, remove our coats, remove our jackets, remove our shoes, empty our pockets, turn over our wallets, purses, briefcases, laptop bags and backpacks, and allow the federal airline security person to place their hands on our person.

During this ordeal, the federal airline security person kept asking, "Is it OK if I touch your waist? Is it OK if I touch your back? Is it OK if I look under your shirt? Are you offended by any of this? Do you feel uncomfortable about this procedure?"

I said, "if you really want to know how I feel, yes, I am uncomfortable and very offended, but what choice do I have?"

At that point, while I was receiving all this particular attention, two Moose Limb gentlemen, one of them in full regalia and carrying a cane, the other sporting a large backpack, presented their boarding passes and WENT STRAIGHT ON THROUGH TO BOARD THE PLANE.

I almost lost it right then and there. Meanwhile they weren't even half finished with me. "Aren't you going to search those two men?" I asked. "The one with the cane and the other one with the backpack?"

"Do you think we should?" the federal airline security person asked me.

"Damn right I think you should!" But they ignored me.

On the return flight this morning I was not singled out for special attention. However I did see an elderly Chinese gentleman taken out of line. Because he was using a cane.

[weegee]

Be prepared to hear on your next flight:

We are preparing for takeoff. Please turn off your:

cell phones
lap tops
portable CD/tape players
PDAs
shoes
etc...

[weegee]

At least it wasn't this idiot:

Bomb joke backfires, grounds plane (NYC to Fort Lauderdale)

[Thinkin' Gal]

I said, "if you really want to know how I feel, yes, I am uncomfortable and very offended, but what choice do I have?"

At that point, I thought I was going to read that they slapped the cuffs on you! It seems to me, that PC insanity (i.e. complete absence of reason and discernment) is what happens when individuals/groups/nations cease to retain God in their knowledge. Instead of a memorial between the eyes, it's deer in the headlights syndrome.

[babaloo999]

but there may be parallels to this.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

A Delta flight has landed at Logan after a passenger reported hearing a beeping sound coming from an overhead storage bin.

I thought bombs came with beepers only in the movies.

[IYAS9YAS]

Drove my teacher nuts in Jr. High with one of those, kept passing it to other students with the timer set to go off about every two or three minutes (depending on when the next kid set it for). Lost my watch for a day or so, then got it back with the provision I not set the alarm again. Teacher was frustrated but cool about it. I could see it happening today...I'd be busted for having some sort of drug paraphanelia because of the beeper watch.

[dmz]

if the terrorists are using radio shack parts, we'll be fine.

from my days working there, when asked how something worked, our stock answer was "oh, it's fm", which of course stands for "fu&*ing magic".