Breaking: Plane Diverted To Dallas - Fighter Jets Scrambled

[matcom]

just heard on Stephanie Miller. Will look for link

on edit: flight originated in Atlanta, was heading for San Fran

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. It's a shame

but my first reaction five years later is to laugh and say to myself, 'yeah, right'.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Nothing on CNN yet...

:wow:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. CNN a few minutes ago...

found a Blackberry in someone's backpack.

no kidding.


are we a complete laughing stock yet?

[rodeodance]

6. thank god this did not happen over DC or NYcity!

[Cooley Hurd]

7. A goddman BLACKBERRY???

Jesus...:banghead:

[kurth]

8. Thank God. Could have been a toddler peeing in his diaper

[Donnachaidh]

10. are you kidding me?

They diverted a plane for a freaking BLACKBERRY?

And was the airmarshall named Barney Fife?

[Wickerman]

11. scrambled fighters for a Blackberry?

:rofl: Actually, that is really, really sad.

[matcom]

14. TERROR EMAIL IN THE SKY!!

:rofl:

[lumberjack_jeff]

18. Blackberries on a plane!

There are M-fing blackberries on my M-fing plane!

[Lurking Dem]

29. HA

:rofl:

[Art_from_Ark]

31. That was truly funny

:rofl:

[Wilber_Stool]

45. HA,HA.

[Jacobin]

68. Don't laugh. They can stain the seats!!

[Realityhack]

74. LOL!

[Wickerman]

50. Them email viruses are no joking matter! n/t

[spotbird]

55. blackberries are allowed on planes

aren't they?

[drm604]

64. The fruit or the phone?

:D

[Art_from_Ark]

78. Well, blackberries the fruit are semi-liquid

so whether or not they are allowed on planes is iffy and is probably up to the discretion of the TSA supervisor. My suggestion is to leave your blackberry fruit at home if you don't want to see it sharing a big TSA trash can with all the bottled water, Coke, Pepsi, Snapple, non-critical liquid medications, lipstick, mascara, and Elmer's glue.

[PinkTiger]

3. Sounds like a planned diversion for "Terra" reasons

I hope everything is OK and nobody gets hurt, but I sort of doubt the veracity of it.

[saltpoint]

5. PinkTiger, you've got it just right. I second that.

[ramapo]

12. Fear is Bush's best friend

What better day to stoke the fires a bit??

[saltpoint]

32. Yep. But lately the polls show people beginning to wise up.

Let's hope enough do before Nov. 7th, and let's get John Conyers as Judiciary Chair.

That will bring a pretty swift halt to some of the fearmongering.

[Matariki]

47. sure - but when it turns out to be ridiculous stuff

like a blackberry, i don't think it has the desired effect.

[BobRossi]

9. No doubt a real threat!

Quite likely some Lib that was supposed to be on the no-fly list got onboard. ><

[TheWatcher]

77. Do you actually have a point to that statement or did you just forget to

add the :sarcasm: tag?

[notadmblnd]

13. is there nothing they won't do to try to instill fear?

nt

[radfringe]

17. nope... it's the booga-booga season

[sofa king]

63. Darn right.

Today at the Rosslyn Metro, there's a cop walking around sporting a mean looking automatic weapon.

Does the H&K G36 come in a short model with a forward grip? Maybe I've just been playing too much Battlefield 2 this year.

Anyway, it was a little freaky to see someone just hanging around with one of those things. It didn't make me feel any safer, but it made me feel a lot more German.

[AX10]

15. We all knew that Bush was going to inject politics into this day.

[Kagemusha]

16. This shows how far we've come in 5 years, doesn't it?

This isn't even an exceptional event - diverting planes, even scrambling fighter jets for a Blackberry in a backpack, it's routine now!

I can't think of anything more fitting and emblematic to mark the last 5 years of our lives than this.

[newspeak]

61. too bad they couldn't have scrambled jets

sooner five years ago!!!!

[radfringe]

19. prediction: by this afternoon - all electronic devices

will be verboten on planes. but you can still smuggle them in your checked luggage, which is not screened/scanned/searched for shampoo or explosives...

[ScreamingMeemie]

33. MrG just called me from the ground in Detroit...

They delayed his flight. The odd thing is is that they were not really overly excessive with the security this morning. :hi:

[radfringe]

36. give it a couple of hours

MrG and other passengers will be told they will have to go through security again...

[ScreamingMeemie]

37. I called him back after his flight was delayed and we found out

about the diverted flight to let him know that they would probably haul them all off again for rescreening.

[Recursion]

65. Why would they be?

AQ won't hit on 9/11 again, and won't hit with planes again. They're low-tech/high-concept.

[ScreamingMeemie]

71. I don't know...you tell me why they ever are.

:shrug:

[panader0]

20. Let's see, the plane originated in Atlanta and was headed for S.F.

Wouldn't that take it right over Crawford?

[mnhtnbb]

70. Maybe the blackberry was programmed to dump the bilge on the Coward's

house!

Edit grammar

[JuniperLea]

21. Ok we need to divert a plane today...

Hmmm... now that we have, what was our justification... ok... what's this electronic device...



Sick freaks.

[gasperc]

22. can't be, Cheney said yesterday were better off

this MUST be a hoax

[dbt]

23. Fighter jets scrambled, huh?

Where the FUCK were the fighter jets five years ago today?

dbt
Remember New Orleans

[Tesla]

27. I always wondered how the second plane entered the NY airspace

I mean they KNEW there were 3 other planes off course by then!

[itcfish]

46. My Thoughts Exactly

n/t

[Tesha]

53. Right where they belonged; keeping out of the way of the operation.

> Where ... were the fighters?

Right where they belonged; keeping out of the way of the operation.

Remember; the fighters only responded and shot down the plane *HEADED
FOR THE WHITE HOUSE*. The sacrifice of everybody else in the other
targets was necessary for the propaganda to be effective.

Tesha

[NotGivingUp]

57. that was my very first thought!

[appleannie1]

75. If this is true, it might answer your question

http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/9_11_facts.html

On the morning of September 11th, 2001, Dick Cheney was running several war games in the north eastern portion of the United States. These drills included many hijacking scenarios, where commercial jets were hijacked and flown into buildings. At the same time Cheney had arranged for a drill involving a bio attack on NY. This resulted in FEMA setting up a command post on pier 29 in New York on September 10th.

Some of these drill were scheduled for later in the year but Dick Cheney rescheduled them and made sure that they all took place on the same day. This was unprecedented.

The war games involved live fly exercises, and electronic drills where fake blips were placed on radar screens. Cheney was in charge of a communications system that superseded those of the FAA, NORAD and NEADS. Some of the drills possibly included remote control planes.

[Name removed]

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[displacedtexan]

25. Dallas Morning News now has a banner up

Just this:

CNN and other sources are reporting that a United Airlines flight from Atlanta to San Francisco was diverted and has landed at D/FW Airport after a suspicious item was found on board. Details to come.

LINK

[maddezmom]

26. here's a link: US diverts plane from Atlanta to San Francisco - report UPD

WASHINGTON (AFX) - A United Airlines flight en route from Atlanta, Georgia to San Francisco was diverted to Dallas, Texas because of \"suspicious activity\" CNN reported, citing the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).

The move was taken as the US marked the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks that stunned the world and forever changed Americans\' sense of safety at home and abroad.


http://www.sharewatch.com/story.php?storynumber=203294

Having a Blackberry is suspicious acivity. :scared:

[radfringe]

28. we interrupt this day of rememberance

to remind you to be afraid....very afraid...

[HughBeaumont]

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[LibDemAlways]

34. Doesn't a blackberry fall into the category of

"personal data assistant" under electronic devices? Just checked the TSA website and those are allowed as carry-ons. WTF is going on here?

[ScreamingMeemie]

35. They are supposedly used as detonation triggers...

They removed a backpack from the cargo hold that didn't match any of the passengers before the plane took off...supposedly.

[radfringe]

38. how did they know it was in the cargo hold?

and if they checked it against passenger manifest - how did it even get into the cargo hold in the first place? and why wait to cross-check the lists after the plane has taken-off?

gee, slap me silly and call me naive - but it seems to me you would want to check the luggage/cargo for explosives BEFORE it leaves the freaking runway... but what do I know..

[ScreamingMeemie]

39. They took the bag, supposedly, off the plane, supposedly, before

it took off...supposedly. Then they supposedly checked it against the supposed passenger manifest. The plane took off Then the flight attendant supposedly found the Blackberry.

[radfringe]

40. chuckle... ahh well..

that was a nice diversion... got the fear mode pumping a bit...

are we going to have non-specific-top-secret-chatter-threats later today? haven't had a booga-booga for the subways in quite awhile?

as for myself - I'm worried about scuba-diving hamsters armed with anthrax swimming up the sewer pipes into my bathroom

[AzDar]

41. "Booga! Booga! Booga!" - Snarlin' Dick Cheney. n/t

[Pierre.Suave]

42. Insane

this is what this is, it is certifiably insane...

[Tellurian]

43. Did anyone catch the bomber's new technique last night?

soaking nitro-glycerin in cotton then waiting for it to turn into an explosive gel?

Just happenstance, eh? Suddenly shampoo, shaving creme, body lotion, after shave..etc.
Verboten on airplanes..Could be the Bush division of shock and awe took a page right
out of the PT911 to add to their repertoire of FEAR?

Coincidence? I don't think so!

[BrotherBuzz]

60. New technique?

Guncotton has been around for since 1838...

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

44. This happened in Ottawa a while back, too.

A guy dropped his iPod in an airplane toilet, but didn't notice it at the time. A few minutes later, he heard a flight attendant say she's found some sort of device lodged in the pipe. He realized what had happened, and explained about his iPod, but it was too late. She had already phoned security.

Not only did the passengers have to sit in a crowded bus for an hour at Ottawa airport, but the innocent man himself got grilled by a bunch of clueless customs officers. Even after it was revealed that he hadn't actually planted a bomb on the plane after all, he still got grilled about his "terrorist" activities, including one fool asking if he had any connection to "that liquid thing in England".

[Tesha]

56. It all started going wrong for the guy when he said...

It all started going wrong for the guy when he said that the
music on his iPod was "da bomb!".

(Yes, I'm making this up. But it really *IS* getting harder
and harder to tell these days, isn't it?)

Tesha

[petronius]

59. As inane as the security response was, and as bad as I feel for the

guy going through the humiliation, that was a truly hilarious story. Especially the end: "Um, do you want it back?"

:rofl:

[Ilsa]

48. I wish the people in charge would sit back and take a deep breath

and think about what they are doing. Oh wait. They are intentionally trying to terrorize the public so they'll slip back into that 9-11 mindset: "Terror! Terror! Terror!"

[Radioactive]

49. Fox News were all over this

They even had live camera feed on the Dallas skyline.

[footinmouth]

51. Missed connection?

Doesn't luggage often show up without passengers? Often when a connection is messed up, the luggage and passengers show up on different flights. Mr. Footinmouth got stuck traveling in August on the same day as the British terror scare. His flight to JFK was diverted to Hartford. He and co-workers rented a car and drove back, some with luggage, some without. Luggage arrived the next day, separated from the passenger. This stuff happens all the time.

[radfringe]

54. Happened to us in a similar way

we had a four hour layover in Charlottsville, asked at the airline desk if there was another flight with room leaving sooner. They checked, and yes, but it was leaving in 10 minutes...

they said they would make arrangements for luggage to get on board, we ran for the plane and boarded.

had a relaxing flight into Philadelphia thinking we would be able to get home earlier than expected - yeah....right....

our luggage wasn't moved, it was still on the original flight - so instead of spending 4 hours in Charlottsville waiting for our flight, we spent 4 hours in Philadelphia waiting for our luggage

[stepnw1f]

52. whatever.... more bullshit to scare US citizens (nt)

[BrightKnight]

58. Turn it off, remove the battery or destroy it?

Diverting a flight over a lost Blackberry is nuts. It Sounds like something a Bush appointee would do.

[mikelgb]

62. Breaking: Breakfast Diverted To My Stomach - Eggs Scrambled

[AngryOldDem]

66. LOL

Thank you for the very badly needed laugh.

I heard about this this morning; it's now about 4 p.m. where I am. I assume all's well that ends well.

[specimenfred1984]

67. Breaking: Money Diverted From Pockets: Facts Scrambled

This just in: Evil turrists on the loose everywhere, now go buy a car!

LOL!

[Megahurtz]

69. ANYTHING to hype up the "Terra" this time of year.

:boring:

[bamacrat]

72. There just looking for something today.

[pinniped]

73. There is nothing suspicious about a Blackberry device.

Oh, maybe it was password protected.

Inept fucks.

Wasn't the idea to NOT these terra-dudes, real or imagined, change our way of life?

I know what gives. These fucks have been watching that "Executive Decision" movie.

The bad terrrrrra-dude was fumbling with a small electronic device which controlled the bomb in the cargo bay.

[BrightKnight]

76. RF shielding the hold would be cheap and easy.

It would be just as easy to shield the overhead carry on compartments.

There is no excuse for not shielding the hold.
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People are never going to be happy with the security convenience trade off. Every time they do something stupid like that they lose credibility that is needed to fight real security issues.