Report: American Airlines Flight 34 intercepted by fighter jets

[Ian David]

Source: Wire Update

Manhattan: American Airlines 34 has 3 passengers locked in a restroom refusing to come out. Fighter Jets are assigned for an intercept.

Read more: http://wireupdate.com/wires/20026/report-american-airlines-flight-34-intercepted-by-fighter-jets/

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YidAlerts YidNews Alert
Update: WSJ source says American Airlines flight 34 incident is not terrorism related, For now "all clear."
http://twitter.com/#!/YidAlerts/status/112978063616245760

[alp227]

1. In 2004 the Wash Post revealed "Cheney Authorized Shooting Down Planes" on 9/11

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50745-2004Jun17.html

At 10:39 on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Vice President Cheney, in a bunker beneath the White House, told Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in a videoconference that he had been informed earlier that morning that hijacked planes were approaching Washington.

"Pursuant to the president's instructions, I gave authorization for them to be taken out," Cheney told Rumsfeld, who was at the Pentagon. Informing Rumsfeld that the fighter pilots had received orders to fire, Cheney added, "It's my understanding they've already taken a couple of aircraft out."

[The Doctor.]

25. At 10:39 am ? Well, isn't that just great.

Good for him! He saved us!

Right?

[bigworld]

2. 3 passengers locked in a restroom?

Obviously there's some story here.

[idrahaje]

4. I'd assume it was a threeway milehigh club :P

o_O don't entirely believe thats legal. only one person in the room at a time

[ladywnch]

6. after they got in there they probably couldn't get the door open again! LOL

I mean, come on, those 'rooms' are TINY!.....at least the last several flights I've been on they have been really tight.

[The Doctor.]

26. It doesn't work.

Trust me on this.

:evilgrin:

[formercia]

3. Perhaps they were sharing a spiff and didn't want to come out until the smoke cleared.

If you're gonna die, might as well be High.

[MilesColtrane]

5. The tenth anniversary of 9/11 is NOT a good time to act weird on a plane.

I indeed hope this isn't some sort of terror attack.

(How the hell do you get three people in one of those tiny bathrooms any way?)

[rox63]

7. Must have been 3 really thin people n/t

[Rozlee]

16. 3 really thin Americans on one airline?

What are the odds? At least two of them must've been French.

[Deep13]

21. LOL. At least two.

And the third one must have been Italian.

[Politicalboi]

8. LOL!

Were they kamikaze fighter jets? We all know how our military is unprepared for these kind of events.

[SoapBox]

9. Updates indicate...idiots.

...you can look at the original link for Twitter updates. I tried looking all over the
place for this (CNN, USAToday, LA Times) and nothing.

American Flight Attendants sometimes seem to be on a "hair trigger" (and that was even before 9/11).

They landed and headed to the gate.

[AtheistCrusader]

10. Pretty much have to be a circus midget to pull that one off.

[sulphurdunn]

11. I'd like to see the time line for this.

Particularly, how long it took the jets to intercept the flight.

[AtheistCrusader]

13. Today? Fuck, they were probably patrolling, if not sitting at the end of the runway

gassed up and ready to go.

[jwirr]

12. Interesting

[demwing]

14. Local police have released sketches of two of the suspects

which they believe to be extremely accurate:

[SoapBox]

17. I'll be laughing if it is just some White Trash guys...

Dumb and his brother Dumber maybe?

[autorank]

28. Well, yeah, that's via the national security state

Here's my take on the two

:dunce: :dunce:

or something like that.

[riderinthestorm]

15. My 14 yr old daughter's on a United flight right now. Stories like this are making me want to heave.

My stomach's in knots. I wish people wouldn't make jokes. I am literally sick to my stomach with fear already. Irrational? Perhaps but until she lands, the reality is this day IS forever more going to be tough.

[SoapBox]

18. I will say this...relax...and here is why...

Nothing similar to the 9/11 hijackings will EVER happen on a U.S. airliner ever again.

Cockpits are now heavily reinforced and under NO, NEVER, EVER circumstances will those
doors be opened ever again, no matter what goes on in that cabin. Period.

Policies and procedures 10 years ago for cockpit entry were sloppy. Now they are not.

[obxhead]

19. Not only that

but the other 100 to 200+ people on the plane will not let a few people take it over with box cutters or finger nail files. In fact someone trying that today would be very lucky to not be thrown from the plane around 10,000 feet.

[blank space]

22. There had been a lot more planes hijacked before

9/11 than after.

The fact that only one plane showed any defense to people armed with box cutters blows my mind.

Planes had been hijacked for decades.

There were very stringent procedures for hijacked planes prior to 9/11 - including transponders, alarms all of which should have set off
a massive response.

These failed on every plane, for no reason.

So whatever has been put in place could just as easily fail - for no reason.

[MilesColtrane]

24. "The fact that only one plane showed any defense to people armed with box cutters blows my mind."

Only the passengers on flight 77 and 93 had reason to believe that their hijackers were on suicide missions.

While there was no evidence that the passengers on flight 77 attempted to retake the plane, there is also no evidence that they did not try.

[a la izquierda]

23. Seriously.

There's a reason I wear steel-toed Doc Marten's when I fly. It's not because they're fabulously fashionable and oh-so comfortable. One reason is because if someone is going to take my life on a plane, I'm going to try and kick their skull in first. I don't think you even have to be a tough guy. I think you just have to be human at that point. (The other is because if there's ever an incident on the plane, you don't want something breaking your foot and hindering your escape and the escape of many people behind you).

[Bosonic]

20. I think the new suspected M.O. is discretely componentizable bombs

which is why there is such nervousness about multiple people meeting in toilets (where presumably they could pool their components, reconstruct the bomb and then detonate it).

[autorank]

27. Plane sex or something equally stupid k*r

For scorekeepers, TWO passengers -- not three -- spent "too much time" in bathroom, sparking scare. 3rd passenger suspicious, not in broom
about 9 hours ago via webReplyRetweetFavorite
@edhenryTV
Ed Henry

Anyone who would screw around today deserves to spend some time in jail. It's really unforgivable.

[defendandprotect]

29. Sadly, NORAD AWOL on 9/11 --

but then again, so was the entire government, the Pentagon and our intelligence

services --


9/11 -- false flag operation -- for business reasons -- ASBESTOS/White Elephant

COUPLED with an excuse for having the buildings explode in DEMOLITION ...

i.e., "terrorists" which gives PNAC it's "new Pearl Harbor" and excuse for illegal

attacks on two nations in ME ... where they have lots of ... OIL -- !!



And where there are increasing challenges to our sanctiosn on Iraq --

for humanitarian reasons --


Here's CIA Whistle Blower Susan Lindauer --

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x321024#321175