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| America West Flight diverted Thursday after Message Found |
| 2005-12-02 |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An America West Airlines flight was diverted to Kansas City on Thursday after a threatening message was found in the lavatory, airline and Homeland Security officials said. America West Flight 820 from Phoenix to Boston landed without incident and all passengers were taken off and re-screened by security with "negative results." The airplane was diverted for security reasons after threatening graffiti was found in its bathroom. Airline spokesman Phil Gee said the airplane was carrying 99 passengers and five crew. Federal and local officials were inspecting the airplane, a Homeland Security official said. The flight had been due to land in Boston at 5 p.m. but had been delayed by at least three hours. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #8 I'm in, it has seemed to me that the US Govt has gone considerably out of it's way to deliberately destroy the airlines. Makes me wonder if the Govt doesn't plan to bankrupt, then nationalize them? But that's un-American? Isn't it? hello? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-12-02 14:04 |
| #7 We need to set up a closely held RB Hedge Fund that does nothing but short airline stock. Pay Desert B 5 percent of the net profits for advice. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-12-02 12:03 |
| #6 tw, they have to be able to pin it on someone specific before they can think about any charges. pappy, good point. also, Delta just announced they lost $1.14 billion in six weeks since they declared bankruptcy. XMAS air travel is going to be pretty bad. |
| Posted by: lotp 2005-12-02 11:24 |
| #5 I'd also look at ground-crews. The airline is going through a merger, which may or may not be related. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2005-12-02 11:15 |
| #4 You can rest assured all passengers aboard that flight will be included in a computerized aviation serious incident report. The next incident that takes place will result in the names of previous incident(s) passengers being bounced against the current problem flight manifest. I would NOT want to be a match. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-12-02 11:04 |
| #3 Issuing baseless threats that cause a flight to be diverted, delaying arrival at its proper destination isn't illegal? Surely at least the culprit can be sued for the costs he caused to be incurred? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-12-02 10:55 |
| #2 Testing the system, causing panic and economic impact without being arrest-able ... |
| Posted by: lotp 2005-12-02 09:50 |
| #1 An America West Airlines flight was diverted to Kansas City on Thursday after a threatening message was found in the lavatory, airline and Homeland Security officials said message: Imgonna kill the bastard who forgot the TP supply. |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-12-02 08:57 |