Terrorism Rehearsal on Oslo Flight
Charles Johnson
Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 3:04 pm PDT • Views: 237
News is just coming out that there was a rehearsal for a hijacking aboard a flight from Oslo to Prague last year: Terrorism rehearsal on Oslo flight. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
Czech security police (BIS) have reported an attempt to storm the cockpit of a flight from Oslo to Prague.
The BIS annual report for 2005, released on Tuesday, mentions flight OK 447 in September 2005, where three Egyptian citizens tried to gain access to the pilots.
According to BIS spokesman Jan Subrt, police terrorism experts believe that the three Egyptians were not trying to hijack the plan but rather testing the security measures on board the plan, which was owned by Czech Airlines (CSA).
“The crew on board discovered the three Egyptians trying to open the door into the cockpit. When the stewards intervened they immediately gave up their attempts and gave the excuse that they were looking for a staff member because they wanted to buy chewing gum,” Subrt said.
You’ve got to wonder how many similar probes of our air defenses have been detected, but not revealed to the public—or even more troubling, how many haven’t been detected.
Frank says: