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A thwarted attack on an El Al aircrew in Canada was reported today. JERUSALEM (AFP) - Plans by an unknown group to attack staff of Israel’s national carrier El Al in Canada have been thwarted, Israel’s private Channel Two television reported on Wednesday. Without giving the nationalities of the ...
LGF, Canada, Militant Islam, Islam, Terrorism, El Al, Airlines, Israel
A computer system that handles flight plans on the east coast is failing massively: FAA computer problems causing delays. Fox is reporting “full ground stops” at airports all down the coast.
LGF, FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, Airlines, Computer Failure
He forgot it was there: TIA Passenger Had Box Cutter In Hollowed-Out Book. TAMPA — A 21-year-old Clearwater man was arrested at Tampa International Airport this weekend after security personnel found a box cutter in a hollowed-out book, authorities said. About 7:30 a.m. Sunday, airport security ran Benjamin Baines ...
You may remember the story of troops on layover at Oakland International Airport being denied access to the terminal facilities; it was a big “outrage” story in the blogosphere last year. But after an investigation, the Transportation Department now says the airport was only behaving according to policy: Airport found ...
Oh brother. Rashid Rauf, one of the main suspects in the plot to blow up airplanes flying from Britain to the US, escaped after a court appearance in Pakistan when his police guards took off his handcuffs and let him go into a mosque to pray—while they waited in the ...
LGF, Pakistan, Heathrow Plot, Airlines, Terrorism, Islam, Mosque
Another episode of the never-ending grievance theater, this time in a lawsuit against Air Canada: Muslim artist files complaint against airline. A Muslim political cartoonist has filed a complaint against Air Canada, claiming he was barred from a flight because of his race, his religion and his criticism of ...
LGF, Canada, Radical Islam, Anti-war, Grievance Theater, Airlines, Air Canada
Annie Jacobsen has another harrowing story from the world of air travel, in which a passenger is mistakenly labeled a terror suspect: Terror on the Tarmac.
Annie Jacobsen has gotten hold of a “TSA Suspicious Incident” report, about the behavior of a group of passengers on a flight to Milwaukee from Washington DC: Pilot, Crew, TSA: Four Passengers Targeted Bathroom, Tampered with Mirror. Perhaps even more troubling than a possible “dry run”—this suspicious incident report is ...
Annie Jacobsen reports that American Airlines has no intention of settling the “racial profiling” lawsuit brought against them by six Arab Iraqis, and she posts the police report on the incident to show why: Police Report: American Airlines Flight 590. This 12-page police report explains why American Airlines should ...
Hot Air has video of journalist Annie Jacobsen’s appearance on Fox News, discussing the probable terrorist dry run she observed on a Northwest Airlines flight, and the recently released Inspector General’s report on the incident: Annie Jacobsen and Audrey Hudson on Flight 327. Annie Jacobsen also has a new piece ...
Three years after Annie Jacobsen wrote her article about the terrorist “dry run” she observed on a Northwest Airlines flight, the Department of Homeland Security has released new information that confirms our worst suspicions—not only about terrorist plans for another 9/11, but about DHS’s amazing incompetence, because the incident was ...
We all have to take off our shoes and hand over any bottled liquids to the TSA when we get on a plane. But put a magnet inside a “lower body cavity” before boarding a flight at LAX, and they’ll let your luggage travel ahead even though you’ve been detained ...
At Annie Jacobsen’s web site Aviation Nation, we discover an account of an apparent terrorist dry run on an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami—the same route and airline on which Richard Reid failed to detonate his shoe bombs: American Airlines Flight 62: A Terrorist Probe? This report was ...
In the post-9/11 world, this is how you deal with airplane hijackers: Mauritania plane passengers beat up hijacker. MADRID (Reuters) - Passengers on a hijacked Air Mauritania plane ended the ordeal when they stormed the cockpit and beat up the lone gunman after the aircraft landed in Spain’s Canary Islands ...
The unelected anti-American bureaucrats of the European Union have struck down an agreement that requires the EU to share information on European citizens flying to the United States: EU, U.S. Anti-Terror Accord on Airlines Struck Down. (Hat tip: Niall.) May 30 (Bloomberg) — Europe’s highest court struck down an anti-terrorism ...