Box Cutter Discovered On Plane In Philadelphia

[VolcanoJen]

http://www.nbc10.com/travelgetaways/2589543/detail.html

POSTED: 9:31 p.m. EST October 28, 2003

PHILADELPHIA -- The FBI is holding a US Airways plane in Philadelphia after a box cutter was found on board.

A passenger discovered the cutter just before takeoff for Phoenix. Passengers were evacuated from that plane and another plane completed the flight.

The flight had just landed in Philadelphia from Houston late Tuesday when the box cutter was found.

[VolcanoJen]

1. Box Cutter Found on Airplane at Logan Airport

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--bladeonplane1028oct28,0,1459247.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

October 28, 2003, 10:58 PM EST

BOSTON -- A cutting object was found on a U.S. Airways Express propeller plane on Tuesday afternoon at Boston's Logan Airport.

"Our flight crew found a box cutter on the airplane, and then that was turned over to the authorities, and then the passengers boarded and the flight continued on to Syracuse, (N.Y.)," said Deborah Thompson, spokeswoman for U.S. Airways.

The crew discovered the object during a routine inspection of the plane, said Ann Davis, spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration.

"It was an inbound flight. There was no penetration through our security," Massachusetts Port Authority spokesman Phil Orlandella said.


Unrelated? Both stories are now coupled at the top of Drudge's site... seems like an odd discovery, both in one day, doesn't it?

:tinfoilhat:

[Minstrel Boy]

2. but box cutters are so 2001

Whenever the next 9/11 happens, I'm pretty sure it won't look anything like 9/11.

on edit: okay, two in one day is a little odd.

[VolcanoJen]

3. Maybe just a "nudge-nudge" to remind us of the War on Terror

The timing is suspect... as usual.

[Minstrel Boy]

5. That's certainly possible.

And to many Americans, nothing says "terror" like a box cutter.

[freeforall]

4. Well, if you write the dates

as we do here, the next 9-11 is in 12 days.

9 November 2003

[PartyPooper]

6. A few weeks ago, I accidentally forgot I had a pocket knife

in my carry-on (attached to my car keys). I always take loose change, car keys, watch, etc. and put into carry-on back pack for screening machine. But, this time I forgot about the pocket knife!

They did ask me to remove my shoes...I hadn't gone through this routine before...and, was informed that my slip-ons had metal in the soles! That was news to me!

Anyway, after being 'frisked' by a friendly and efficient gentleman, he asked me to take my shoes again through the x-ray machine. And, I told him I was a 'clean freak'...and, I didn't want to walk on the dirty floor in my stocking feet! Low and behold, this kind man took my shoes himself to the scanner! My feet never touched the dirty floor!

I have been flying for over 40 years...my father was a pilot...and, I still have trouble with these new 'rules'. But, honestly, I didn't realize it until much later that I had forgotten to take the knife off the key ring and pack it in my checked bag. Yikes!

:dunce:

[Atlant]

7. It is absolutely impossible to "inspect" us into safety.

There is not a doubt in my mind that any sufficiently motivated
person could still bring weapons onto a plane; you quite
effectively proved this yourself.

Even if they made you strip naked, walk through a magnetometer
AND an X-Ray machine, and then have you fly naked, it
could still be done.

Atlant