AirTran 'hero' wasn't on plane, airline says

Are you telling me there was no one on the plane who could speak Spanish?

I'm not a lawyer but I am a writer and I also caught the ambiguous use of the word "believed" and understood that its use was part of a deliberate tact to mislead and deceive. And knowing that this was a flight headed to Texas, to the American Southwest, for cripes sake -- well, there's not a snowball's chance in hell that there weren't at least half a dozen Spanish-English bilingual folks on board. That ALONE told me that this AirTran and TSA account was manipulated partial-truth bullsh*t. The situation it implied (implied because of the phrase "believed it was Spanish") wasn't even remotely plausible. At least she could have said she "believed" they were speaking Balinese or Samoan or Swahili or some language where it would be believable that no one else on board could translate. I mean, come on!

Lastly, why would the two dudes not get back on the plane to reach their destination if this was a simple miscomunication?

Yep. The airline and TSA officials' claim that it was "a simple miscommunication" (whatever that is) is obviously bogus.

Good post.

The truth will never be known ...

Probably not, but what's blatantly false IS known: it's false that Santa and his Reindeer towed the plane back to gate, and it's FALSE that a simple English-Spanish language barrier, or EVEN an Arab language-English barrier, was the crux of the problem. THOSE are truths we DO know.

The plane was headed for Texas; chances that it didn't have among its passengers several bilingual in English and Spanish are virtually nil. No matter WHAT the language -- if this was a group of more than a dozen travelling companions on a relatively small airplane where conversations and interactions could easily be observed even 15 seats away, it strains credulity to the breaking point to think that at least one among them wasn't proficient in English and the shared language among the travelling companions to translate.

This is NOT about the original email or about the Chaplain. It's about the obviously FALSE explanation that AirTrans and TSA are IMPLYING without actually saying. Some ugly and dangerous sh*t went down, probably related to Islamic terrorists (this WAS an act of terrorism because Americans were clearly terrorized), and officials are covering it up.

That is a truth we do know.

And knowing that this was a flight headed to Texas, to the American Southwest, for cripes sake -- well, there's not a snowball's chance in hell that there weren't at least half a dozen Spanish-English bilingual folks on board. That ALONE told me that this AirTran and TSA account was manipulated partial-truth bullsh*t.

Good point.

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