Passenger attempts to blow up Northwest Airlines flight..

Well, well, well

article said:
The suspect was not on a "no-fly" list, which might have kept him off the plane, but his name was in a database indicating "a significant terrorist connection," King said.
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You'd think that if the authorities conclude that a particular person has significant terrorist connections, they would have what it takes to be added to the no-fly-list.

Until that happens, the list seems to be pointless, huh?

Why am I not surprised.
 
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crazyjeep- i'll be sure to look for ya when i'm out in DTW. we did 3 flights in/out of DTW today.

My first flight landed about 30 minutes after this happened supposedly.
We never heard anything about it because we were wrapped up in our own scheduling/re-scheduling re-crewing a flight issue.

I was reading about it while browsing the inflight wifi on the deadhead mainline flight from DTW-ATL in the evening on the ipod. After reading the article-i showed our FA-she was shocked.

Quite a day it seems.
 
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I love all this "man with links to Al Qaeda" stuff. Heck, I have links to Al Qaeda. Anyone ever see that six degrees of separation? I know of someone that knows of someone that knows of someone that knows........
 
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I'm shocked. Thank God no one was killed or seriously injured.

Safe to say this will have major implications for airline security.
 
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I know it is still Christmas and all, at least for another 35 minutes, but I really hope this guy is in agony right now. Third degree burns are pretty bad I hear - I hope they are as bad as everyone says. Particularly on his thighs and tender man parts.
 
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I am glad no one was injured but seriously this is why the no fly list is a complete and utter joke. My friend who happens to be on some "watch list" because his name has 3 letters in common with a known terrorist gets frisked all the time and hassled by TSA (yet he wouldn't even harm a fly)...this guy walks on board an Airbus A330 bound for the states with 250 people...fantastic. I feel safe.
 
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MikeD said:
We have a bomb dog at one of the other stations from us. A Labrador....nicest dog you'd ever meet. Turns out, the dog washed out of attack dog training, so was sent to bomb school. Apparently great at what she does.
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Heh. That reminds me of one of my experiences during the Wired feature, when I went around with a bomb dog for a demo. As the officer set up the package, he explained that the dog would "identify it but was carefully trained not to touch it, so as to avoid setting off anything that could detonate an explosive, like a motion sensor."

We put the package in a good spot, went off a ways, and let the dog do his work. After searching behind counters, around seats, and in a few trash cans, he tracked it underneath a bench... and promptly pushed it about a foot with his nose. "Uh... he doesn't usually do that."

In their defense, we were going under kind of relaxed protocol and I don't think the dog was in the "fully operational" state of mind and all. But it was still funny.
 
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ILSstud said:
My friend who happens to be on some "watch list" because his name has 3 letters in common with a known terrorist gets frisked all the time and hassled by TSA (yet he wouldn't even harm a fly)
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I sort of know how he feels, im in the "watch list" because of my name, yet they insist im about 26 i think they said, where i am really 16. It is a true hassle I have only had to get the wand down by TSA once, but it really is a hassle sometimes.
Im also with you we would not harm a fly but this guy goes trans-atlantic yup I feel safe in the skies.
 
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I think the worst bit is, he cannot check in online because of this...so he gets to wait in line...
 
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ILSstud said:
I think the worst bit is, he cannot check in online because of this...so he gets to wait in line...
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If you're incorrectly on the no-fly list, can't you get issued a secret password that allows you to bypass it? I thought I saw a place in my SkyMiles account for such a number.
 
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....have you tried dealing with the government lately?
 
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N826AW said:
If you're incorrectly on the no-fly list, can't you get issued a secret password that allows you to bypass it? I thought I saw a place in my SkyMiles account for such a number.
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Not be logical or anything in the face the the TSA or whatever three letter acronym in-charge, but they could skip the super secret password idea and instead remove that person from the no-fly list.

anyone?
 
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It's name based. So if John Smith is an Ahl-kay-eeda all of the other John Smiths are effed. I think that's why they are adding birthdate info to reservations. Though I'm not sure how they actually verify it since no where on your eTicket does it display your DOB.
 
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N826AW said:
It's name based. So if John Smith is an Ahl-kay-eeda all of the other John Smiths are effed. I think that's why they are adding birthdate info to reservations. Though I'm not sure how they actually verify it since no where on your eTicket does it display your DOB.
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Okay, I see now.
Just had to get a little sass out of my system. :pirate:
 
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N826AW said:
If you're incorrectly on the no-fly list, can't you get issued a secret password that allows you to bypass it? I thought I saw a place in my SkyMiles account for such a number.
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It's called a "redress" number.

But you still get hassled in customs I think.
 
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ChasenSFO said:
I hope they let this terrorist burn for a while.
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Now, now; where is your politically correct sensibility. We're going to give him the best medical care possible; house him, feed him, cloth him, and then we are going to spend millions of dollars to give him a public forum to air his hatred of America.
 
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