Flyinguy1 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 52 posts, RR: 0 Posted (9 years 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 3044 times:
Fox News is currently reporting that UAL flight 200,currently enroute from LAX to IAD, is being tracked/escorted by the U.S. Government (Air Force, NORAD, FBI, etc.) due to "suspicious activity" or a tip about a possible danger aboard the aircraft. Obviously, since this is post-9/11 and the aircraft is heading to Washington, D.C., security and concern is paramount. The aircraft is scheduled to land in less than an hour. I will update this topic as more information comes in from the news, as well as from a friend who works for UAL at Dulles.
Flyinguy1 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 52 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (9 years 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2874 times:
All aircraft ought to be treated the same. You believe that an A-320 is nothing compared to a heavy? 9/11 will not happen again the way it was executed. God forbid, but if there is another attack with an aircraft, it will occur with an aircraft that is carrying bio. agents or some sort of warhead, not an aircraft going into a building! Therefore, ALL suspicious aircraft should be watched just as closely as a heavy!
747firstclass From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 8, posted (9 years 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2815 times:
There was a thread started on this subject earlier today which was deleted. It has also been on cnn today. Apparently this particular flight has been watched closely by TSA the last few weeks.Particular emphasis was paid in double mchecking the crews IDs. The cockpit crew was even shadowed when they were doing their pre flight checks etc.Their manuals were gone through by TSA. There was extra security at LAX prior to departure. On CNN today a pilot was quoted as saying he had never seen such security in his 25 years of flying. All of this was on CNN a number of times today.
Syncmaster From United States of America, joined Jul 2002, 1983 posts, RR: 14 Reply 9, posted (9 years 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2759 times:
By all means I'm not saying it shouldn't be watched. But what I am saying is that we shouldn't get people all worked up over it. Especially without any outside sources (from what I've seen) talking about it either.
Nwfltattendant From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 341 posts, RR: 4 Reply 11, posted (9 years 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2635 times:
bottom line: if this flight was truly threatened, United would force the flight to land, case closed. Lovely media blitz for nada.
Flyinguy1 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 52 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (9 years 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2626 times:
Cancidas,
although this is not a discussion on news sources, why should Fox's credibility be questioned, as opposed to CNN, MSNBC, BBC, or Aljazeera (very reliable and non-biased, right)?
Flyinguy1 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 52 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (9 years 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2582 times:
Cancidas,
furthermore, what political, moral, or economic gain would Fox achieve by falsifying this report??? This questioned MUST be asnwered in order to validate your contention that Fox is not reliable. By the way, I am not a hardcore fan of Fox, or ANY news source for that matter. I just happened to have Fox on.
Nycfuturepilot From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 791 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (9 years 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2502 times:
Jmc1975, how is it different from any other flight on flightview.com?
Cancidas From Poland, joined Jul 2003, 4112 posts, RR: 13 Reply 16, posted (9 years 2 weeks 5 days ago) and read 2392 times:
Cancidas,
although this is not a discussion on news sources, why should Fox's credibility be questioned, as opposed to CNN, MSNBC, BBC, or Aljazeera (very reliable and non-biased, right)?
flame away gentlemen, i don't care what you say. and i never stated that anyone is more credible than the other. i don't trust anyone of them.
"...cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home."
CO/ba From United States of America, joined exactly 12 years ago today! , 399 posts, RR: 3 Reply 18, posted (9 years 2 weeks 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 2180 times:
They have been going on about this all day. I am sure a lot of us are aware that some flts go through super security. Some daily. I am surprised it is getting as much attention as BA 222/223.
Concord977 From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 1261 posts, RR: 29 Reply 19, posted (9 years 2 weeks 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 2178 times:
Does anyone know what happened? It was due into DC 45 minutes ago. It is not on our local news, and isn't searchable on the Fox news website or CNN website.
Ua777222 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 3348 posts, RR: 13 Reply 20, posted (9 years 2 weeks 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 2133 times:
CO/ba From United States of America, joined exactly 12 years ago today! , 399 posts, RR: 3 Reply 21, posted (9 years 2 weeks 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 2105 times:
Concord977 From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 1261 posts, RR: 29 Reply 22, posted (9 years 2 weeks 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 2068 times:
Thanks UA777222 for finding the mention on their site. I searched using "United" and "Dulles" and nothing came up. It still seems that details (or a conclusion) are absent.
Solarix From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 23, posted (9 years 2 weeks 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 2027 times:
Speaking of strange things regarding LAX, yesterday the SQ A340-500 flight from SIN was escorted in by an F-16. Apparantly there was a hijack signal being sent out. Thankfully it turned out to be a false alarm.
LH423 From Canada, joined Jul 1999, 6501 posts, RR: 55 Reply 24, posted (9 years 2 weeks 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 2018 times:
I don't know what's scarier. The fact that this plane is on the terrorist watch list, or the news blurb underneath the UA one on Ua777222's link...where the TSA is teaching pilots how to shoot guns.
LH423
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25 Benjamin: or the news blurb underneath the UA one on Ua777222's link...where the TSA is teaching pilots how to shoot guns. Um, why would that be scary? Would yo
26 Ua777222: They shouldn't have guns. They should stop training the people to use guns and spend the $$ in trying to make fix what is the issue and make sure that
27 Tjwgrr: "...Well instead of spending $$ in training and guns spend the $$ on x-ray machine for the individual aircraft for each pax.... UA777222" How 'bout sp
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