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Saudi men mistakenly open Chicago plane exit window
CHICAGO, Oct 10 (Reuters) via DRUDGE REPORT ^
| Wednesday October 10, 12:33 pm Eastern Time
| Editorial Staff
Posted on 10/10/2001 3:42:42 PM PDT by vannrox
Saudi men mistakenly open Chicago plane exit window
Wednesday October 10, 12:33 pm Eastern Time
(UPDATE: Updates throughout)
Via Drudge Report posted on Yahoo.
Wednesday October 10, 12:33 pm Eastern Time
CHICAGO, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Three Saudi men removed from a United Airlines (NYSE:UAL - news) flight after they mistakenly tried to open an exit window to get air circulating during the boarding process were only confused passengers, the FBI said on Wednesday.
``They didn't understand English, didn't read English. They were trying to get some air circulating in the airplane,'' FBI spokeswoman Virginia Wright said of Tuesday night's incident
The three were questioned by the FBI and police and later released, she said.
Two brothers were escorting their ill father to St. Louis for a liver transplant and had just boarded United Flight 729, a Boeing 727, at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport when one of the brothers attempted to open an exit window over a wing.
``The incident was a result of the inability of the flight crew to communicate with the passengers. They were Saudi Arabians who spoke no English,'' Wright said. ``They were not experienced flyers. They were novice about airplane travel.''
The airline brought in a new aircraft and the flight later departed at 9:10 p.m. (10:10 p.m. EDT/1410 GMT).
In an unrelated incident, an Australian man was arrested in Chicago on Tuesday after he allegedly became drunk on a flight from Los Angeles and had to be restrained by several passengers after assaulting a flight attendant, the FBI said. He was identified as Kevin Houghton, 31, of Melbourne, Australia. That incident occurred on the same Los Angeles to Chicago flight on which a day earlier an apparently deranged man tried to rush the cockpit.
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......novices...
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posted on
10/10/2001 3:42:42 PM PDT
by
vannrox
(MyEMail)
To: vannrox
mistakenly tried to open an exit window to get air circulating Who is the FBI trying to fool. Is that is the best they can come up with!
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posted on
10/10/2001 3:51:46 PM PDT
by
chainsaw
To: vannrox
Any thread about Anthrax or plane incidences are being hammered by our "no-fear" freepers. IMHO, there have been too many "false-alarms" for there to be nothing behind them. Maybe they're trying to get us to the point where we don't worry anymore, so they can begin the real attacks.
I didn't post about the plane being forced down in Louisiana, simply because I didn't want to see all the smart-aleck replies. If many others start feeling the same way I do, we won't get much news here.
Laughter is good, but so is being alert. Sorry for the rant. Thanks for the post.
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posted on
10/10/2001 3:51:51 PM PDT
by
dubyagee
To: vannrox
They were from Saudi Arabia & "novices" to air travel?
How the f#*k did they get here then? Send them back immediately! Most of the terrorists were here on Saudi passports.
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posted on
10/10/2001 3:54:26 PM PDT
by
Feiny
To: vannrox
In an unrelated incident, an Australian man was arrested in Chicago on Tuesday after he allegedly became drunk on a flight from Los Angeles and had to be restrained by several passengers after assaulting a flight attendant, the FBI said. He was identified as Kevin Houghton, 31, of Melbourne, Australia. That incident occurred on the same Los Angeles to Chicago flight on which a day earlier an apparently deranged man tried to rush the cockpit.
Note to everyone:
The crew on this flight will not be standing for any sort of nonsense any more. If you get rowdy, expect to be struck about the head with a blunt instrument. If I am present, I will help (the crew that is).
To: vannrox
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posted on
10/10/2001 3:56:29 PM PDT
by
wysiwyg
To: vannrox
Oh, these guys must have been popular with the rest of the passengers.
To: dubyagee
Welcome home, dubyagee! member since August 10th, 2001Thought I'd go ahead and post it to save all the "cheese" guys the trouble of looking.
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posted on
10/10/2001 3:59:38 PM PDT
by
dubyagee
To: vannrox
Well, at least now we know why the Saudis don't have any submarines.
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posted on
10/10/2001 3:59:54 PM PDT
by
paddles
To: feinswinesuksass
They were here for their father to get a liver transplant???? Are there any Americans waiting for liver transplants? If they have the money for that something tells me they are not novices when it comes to flying.
To: vannrox
Could that have been opened in flight ?
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posted on
10/10/2001 4:08:33 PM PDT
by
culpeper
To: wysiwyg
Normally I would avoid a duplicate thread, but this one is a good deal more civil than its predecessor. Why not come over here?
To: vannrox
You insensitive Americans!
Instead of laughing at these fine men, a helping hand could have been offered. The aircraft should have been taken to a modest altitude and the men politely informed that the window opens only from the outside.
Let's think before we further jeopardize relations with the Arab world.
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posted on
10/10/2001 4:14:06 PM PDT
by
doyle
To: culpeper
Could that have been opened in flight ?Not once the cabin is pressurized....the door opens "in."
To: culpeper
Could that have been opened in flight ?No. It can't even be opened on the ground, once the plane is pressurized.
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posted on
10/10/2001 4:15:38 PM PDT
by
wysiwyg
To: Crusader Rabbit
Normally I would avoid a duplicate thread, but this one is a good deal more civil than its predecessor.LOL How correct you are.
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posted on
10/10/2001 4:17:19 PM PDT
by
wysiwyg
To: vannrox
Notice that it is the "passengers" who are being the "sky marshalls" on our planes?
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posted on
10/10/2001 4:18:05 PM PDT
by
Reborn
To: vannrox
Wow. The Three Stooges.
What planet did these geniuses grow up on?
To: vannrox
Not very intelligent.
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posted on
10/10/2001 4:28:57 PM PDT
by
ZULU
To: dubyagee
Dubyagee, that is a point I hadn't considered. My advice has been to act as if it's going to be a bad flu year (which it is supposed to be, anyway) and change behavior accordingly. Our habit of going to work sick could cost the lives of millions if a deadly strain of flu hits us, and even a mildly debilitating strain could really hurt our economy at a time like this. People mistake luck for a law of the universe! Especially people who don't know the history of epidemics. We're RIPE FOR A DEVASTATING FLU YEAR and even before 9/11 they were saying this year's strain predictions are scary. But I decided that the terrorists were not going to prove competent at distribution of anthrax, IF they're the ones who killed the man in Florida. My theory was that they expected many, many more to die.
But I heard Dr. Larry Wayne Harris, microbiologist and author of a book on bacterial warfare that was published several years ago, on KTOK-AM 1000 here in the OKC metro, and he has changed my mind. He said that one woman terrorist with a diaper bag and one babyfood jar full of anthrax spores could kill ten thousand people if she stood in one of those tunnels in stadiums and shook the contents into the wind that whooshes through into the stadium. (I've never been in a stadium, so I have only a vague idea of what he's talking about.) If that happens, the only thing we've got going for us is the fact that anthrax isn't contagious from person to person. To clean up the stadium, however, might not even be possible....
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