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Air France, Lufthansa stop Sinai overflights after Russia crash
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| 10-31-2015
| AFP
Posted on 10/31/2015 12:22:57 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf
Last November I flew from Dubai to JFK on Emirates.I got talking to one of the stewards (I refuse to call them "flight attendants") and we started talking about the Malaysian Airlines shootdown.He started telling me that since that incident Emirates started avoiding various chunks of airspace when flying to Europe and North America.
Pretty spooky I'd say.
To: tcrlaf
Not to worry. It was almost certainly a bomb.
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posted on
10/31/2015 3:52:53 PM PDT
by
Flintlock
(Our soapbox is gone, the ballot box stolen--we're left with the bullet box now.)
To: LeoWindhorse
“How does it feel Russia ?...”
Not the time or the place for this kind of crap. Hundreds of innocent civilians are dead.
Have a little humanity.
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posted on
10/31/2015 4:34:35 PM PDT
by
mkleesma
(`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
To: bunkerhill7
Ironically the plane would have flown over Ukraine on it’s intended flight path. I assume it was following it’s normal scheduled flight path.
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posted on
10/31/2015 4:38:02 PM PDT
by
McGruff
(Trump-Cruz 2016. Make America Great Again.)
To: tcrlaf
Plus, earlier it was reported the pilot had reported technical difficulties and was requesting emergency landing. However, in press conference just awhile ago that report was said to be untrue. There was no SOS, no communication of any trouble. There one moment, gone the next.
OTOH, the Daily Beast had a plausible scenario involving structural stress from an accident years ago possibly causing midair breakup.
Black box recovered, will know more tomorrow.
Thanks for your early morning thread on this.
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10/31/2015 4:50:17 PM PDT
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SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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