Pax Vobiscum
11th Sep 2006, 16:59
In todays Times, Caitlin Moran writes (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-10655-2349707-10655,00.html):
Here’s a cheering tale from a friend of a friend: last week, on a Virgin flight to the States, police boarded the plane just before take-off. They removed a man “of Asian appearance”, then came back ten minutes later for the rest of his family. Just as the other passengers thought they were about to taxi to the runway, the police came back and took the vacated seats to pieces. Finally the plane took off for a ten-hour flight — one that all the passengers surely found relaxing and enjoyable, and in no way like a psychological voyage to Hell and back.
I reckon that the days of conscious air travel are drawing to a close. Soon, once we have gone through check-in, stewards will stun-gun every passenger — maybe as we run through duty free — then put us on the aircraft in crates. It’s the only way to be 100 per cent sure of stopping terrorists doing something vexing mid-flight. And, for the rest of the passengers, surely our nerves can’t take being subject to fretful, waking travel much longer.
Is there anything to this story (can't find anything on PPRuNe)?
Here’s a cheering tale from a friend of a friend: last week, on a Virgin flight to the States, police boarded the plane just before take-off. They removed a man “of Asian appearance”, then came back ten minutes later for the rest of his family. Just as the other passengers thought they were about to taxi to the runway, the police came back and took the vacated seats to pieces. Finally the plane took off for a ten-hour flight — one that all the passengers surely found relaxing and enjoyable, and in no way like a psychological voyage to Hell and back.
I reckon that the days of conscious air travel are drawing to a close. Soon, once we have gone through check-in, stewards will stun-gun every passenger — maybe as we run through duty free — then put us on the aircraft in crates. It’s the only way to be 100 per cent sure of stopping terrorists doing something vexing mid-flight. And, for the rest of the passengers, surely our nerves can’t take being subject to fretful, waking travel much longer.
Is there anything to this story (can't find anything on PPRuNe)?