Fly the friendly skies lately? Seen any "Dry Runs" in flight?

[FATCAT]

Interesting story about terrorist "Dry Runs" on flights since 9/11.



The lady who wrote about her family's encounter in 2004 on a flight from Detroit to LA has now written a book and received hundreds of letters/emails and stories from regular passengers, flight attendants, pilots, and gov't officials about this going on all the time by practitioners of the "religion of peace" ... but being suppressed by higher-ups in the gov't.



Any of you folks ever see an of this going on when you have been on a flight?



I'm sure glad I haven't been on a plane in 15 years and never will be again ... don't trust them period.

 

[rrausch]

The Muslim morons who hate us also do this to scare people. But they are only doing what their 'prophet' Mohammad taught them to do. They are also doing it to make us spend more $$ to upgrade security.



I believe the only solution is to STOP all immigration from the Middle east, watch the Arabs who are here, and deport ANY who seem dangerous. And screw the ACLU.

 

[nps]

Yep - the good old ACLU preserving the rights of terrorists to kill Americans. Which Constitutional amendment was the one that conveyed that right? -communist leeches!

 

[FATCAT]

I don't know why all members of the ACLU are not rounded up and placed in an containment camp for the duration of the War on Terror. I mean, isn't that what a sane society does with an organization who is actively trying to destroy the country they have infiltrated?

 

[AfterBurner]

My question is- if the passengers suppected something and felt their life as threatened as they claim, then why didn't they do something? It said there were marshalls, but if i felt that threatened and nobody else was acting, that's grounds to take action myself... just thinking out loud...

 

[EMD Diesel Power]

My question is- if the passengers suppected something and felt their life as threatened as they claim, then why didn't they do something? It said there were marshalls, but if i felt that threatened and nobody else was acting, that's grounds to take action myself... just thinking out loud...

And while we're thinking on the same line of thought... . Most smart people would be buckled in..... the arab/islamic fanatics/radical/ACLU idiots would be the ones up and about. So, blow open the emergency doors and let em get sucked out.



Granted I'd probably die (sucked out while kicking open the door) but at least I;d take a few with me and the plane would survive the decompression.



I think its time to start locking up the borders, building walls, and manning them with Ma Duces and whatever weaponry and missiles you choose. Open fire and ask questions later.



There is an airline out of Israel (El Israel Air... something like that) that pretty much follows this shoot first rule... . not many attempts have been sucessful... most radicals are usually dead on landing.

 

[MFalkinham]

Just my humble opinion here (by the way, I consider myself a conservative and am a gun owner).

I travel frequently on airlines for business, and have never seen a "dry run" take place, even on planes that had several passengers of arab descent, complete with turbans. From reading the article, it sounds to me like the woman overreacted during a situation where these foreigners were acting inappropriately considering the environment. I think their actions were out of ignorance to our customs and expectations, not out of menace.

There aren't nearly enough air marshals to cover every one of the thousands of flights every day, so they are scheduled according to anticipated need. I can guarantee you that any flight with more than a few middle-eastern names on the passenger manifest will have at least one air marshall on board, including the flight in question.

The best tactical advantage that these air marshalls have is their anonymity. If this had been a real terrorist incident and the marshalls identified themselves too soon, they could have easily been overwhelmed and all would be lost. This woman journalist did more to endanger the flight by overreacting than the suspects did.

The best way to play a situation like that is to wait for the marshalls to make their move, and then assist them if necessary. Trying to instigate getting marshalls involved before something happens can only get everyone killed, and this woman should be ashamed of her overreaction and her subsequent "fame" because of it.

Flame suit on.