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America West Flight diverted Thursday after Message Found

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Posted by Pappy 2005-12-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11124 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2005-12-02 08:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Testing the system, causing panic and economic impact without being arrest-able ...

Posted by lotp 2005-12-02 09:50|| 2005-12-02 09:50|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-12-02 10:55|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-12-02 11:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-12-02 11:15|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-12-02 11:24|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-12-02 12:03|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-12-02 14:04|| Front Page Top

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