Breaking- Airliner emergency landing in Ft. Smith Ark. Three mideast types locked in bathroom.

Fox 13 news memphis station | september 11, 2002 | Drawsing

[Drawsing]

My wife just called me with this. I can't find it anywhere else. She saw it on the local TV channel.

[steveegg]

Just make sure the ventilation system, such as it is, is shut off first.

[John H K]

Remember when the poor guy opening a card with confetti in it on an airplane in it magically mutated into someone pouring powder into an air vent on the plane, in all the initial press reports (and I believe spawning a thread much like this)?

Basic facts have a way of turning out to be wrong in breaking stories. I wouldn't absolutely count on any of these people being Middle Eastern, even; Richard Reid turned out not to be though initial reports said he was (though he did turn out to be a terrorist, of course.)

[steveegg]

Shhh, don't give away the entire store at once <VBG>

[Pushi]

In 1959, I got a ticket in Long Beach, CA for having three people in my MGA.

[BlueLancer]

Hello ... my name is BlueLancer ... and I am addicted to FreeRepublic.

[Fred Mertz]

But in Washington, federal officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said the incident was not believed to be a terrorist incident.

Stoopid feds.

[NeoCaveman]

Hello ... my name is BlueLancer ... and I am addicted to FreeRepublic.

Hi BlueLancer.

The first step is always the hardest.

[AppyPappy]

Maybe they had a terrorist tobacco device burning in the head.

[Pushi]

Usually it is a good idea to wash it out with some distilled water. Then Everclear is the best alcohol to use. It will absorb its own volume of water.

[MotleyGirl70]

LOL!

[cake_crumb]

I feel a whole lot safer having the passengers doing the profiling then leaving it up to the red tape jockies.

[dighton]

Oh man, you're scary.

[Orual]

WWCGEBD?

Go here for some hints.

[NeoCaveman]

But in Washington, federal officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said the incident was not believed to be a terrorist incident.

Stoopid feds.

Sounds like "another isolated incident"

(Inside joke for the Glenn Beck Show listeners.)

[cardinal4]

As I am from Kansas City, I don't dispense that accessment lightly.

St. Louis always takes a back seat to KC when it comes to BBQ, but its pretty good here,too. When some of the local churches set up in the parking lots for fundraisers, the pork BBQ is touted as Missouri's best. The Church of the Nazarene in North County puts on a spread for 5 dollars a plate and the line takes 20 mins at the earliest. The one thing I really enjoy about the Midwest...the BBQ.

[Danette]

Wow, flights currently in air are way down today. If you can't see this photo, go to flightview.com

[kellynla]

BTW: I personally was on FR 1998 I believe but the conceptual foundation for creation of the Internet was significantly developed by three individuals and a research conference, each of which changed the way we thought about technology by accurately predicting its future:

Vannevar Bush wrote the first visionary description of the potential uses for information technology with his description of the "memex" automated library system.
Norbert Wiener invented the field of Cybernetics, inspiring future researchers to focus on the use of technology to extend human capabilities.
The 1956 Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence conference crystallized the concept that technology was improving at an exponential rate, and provided the first serious consideration of the consequences.
Marshall McLuhan made the idea of a global village interconnected by an electronic nervous system part of our popular culture.
In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik I, triggering US President Dwight Eisenhower to create the ARPA agency to regain the technological lead in the arms race. ARPA appointed J.C.R. Licklider to head the new IPTO organization with a mandate to further the research of the SAGE program and help protect the US against a space-based nuclear attack. Licklider evangelized within the IPTO about the potential benefits of a country-wide communications network, influencing his successors to hire Lawrence Roberts to implement his vision.

Roberts led development of the network, and based it on the new and powerful idea of packet switching, first discovered by Paul Baran at RAND, and independently a few years later by Donald Davies at the UK National Physical Laboratory. A special computer called an Interface Message Processor was developed to realize the design, and the ARPANET went live in early October, 1969. The first communications were between Leonard Kleinrock's research center at the University of California at Los Angeles, and Douglas Engelbart's center at the Stanford Research Institute.

The first networking protocol used on the ARPANET was the Network Control Program. In 1983, it was replaced with the TCP/IP protocol developed by Bob Kahn, Vinton Cerf, and others, which quickly became the most widely used network protocol in the world.

In 1990, the ARPANET was retired and transferred to the NSFNET. The NSFNET was soon connected to the CSNET, which linked Universities around North America, and then to the EUnet, which connected research facilities in Europe. Thanks in part to the NSF's enlightened management, and fueled by the popularity of the web, the use of the Internet exploded after 1990, causing the US Government to transfer management to independent organizations starting in 1995.

And here we are.

[TankerKC]

Just talked to a buddy on the phone, in Ft. Smith, and it's really happening.

I knew a guy whose mom worked as an ER nurse the night that Rod Stewart...

[Revolting cat!]

I knew a guy whose mom worked as an ER nurse the night that Rod Stewart...

Well, I used to know a guy who's now running for the Presidency of a small country in...

[buffyt]

With all due respect indeed!

Let's see I have been Freepin since 1997, joined early 1998. I don't think I have to answer to YOU. All I did was respond to another Freeper's comment. We have been joking on this thread, if you didn't notice. We have been making comments since the story first broke, even before it really broke nationwide, about it could be another SHOWER story and send in soap and the three will run out and flush and call roto rooter. If you can't take light of this one, perhaps you should find a serious thread on this subject. Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying! I lost two friends in the 9/11 attacks and I am trying to spend a happy day remembering them! Chill out already!!!!!