EK 201 Terror Alert

[Tail Rota]

Hello Fellas:E


If you get lost no worries...the Canuks and the Yanks will ensure you get home safe:cool:


YouTube - CNN BREAKING NEWS Emirates Flight 201 Escorted to New York JFK Airport (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGGD7F0r3Ss)


TR:ok:

[gbax]

Plane from Yemen lands in New York - The Globe and Mail (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/video/plane-from-yemen-lands-in-new-york/article1778583/)

Washington, Oct 30 (DPA) A passenger plane that originated in Yemen landed safely Friday at New York's John F Kennedy international airport, where US authorities were to inspect the craft for any suspicious packages.
Two US fighter jets had escorted the Emirates Airlines plane, which flew from Yemen via the United Arab Emirates, to its destination out of what US authorities described as 'an abundance of caution'.

The flight was first tracked as it flew into Canadian airspace and crossed into the US, according to a spokeswoman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which is charged with monitoring airspace in North America.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said the flight was being investigated because there may be cargo from Yemen on board, US broadcaster CNN said.

The incident followed suspicious packages being inspected on two cargo planes that had originated in Yemen and were destined for the US. The two planes had been halted during stopovers in Britain and Dubai.

[MrMachfivepointfive]

Huhahahahaha! To be honest - The Nigerian guy with the fire cracker in his underpants last year had a lot more entertainment value than the toner cartridge with a SSIM card.

By the way: EK201 is Dubai to JFK - not Yemen (wherever) to JFK.

I am sure the crew felt re-assured and in perfect safety in the knowledge that some bible thumping underachievers in their F15s had a couple of AIM7s and AIM9s growling at them.

[Plazbot]

Gulf news of course reported that it was Canadian Fighters. Minhad anyone?

[nolimitholdem]

The flight EK201 DXB-JFK was escorted over Canadian airspace by Canadian F-18's based in Bagotville, Quebec. At the airspace border the escort duties were taken over by US F-15's out of Barnes, Massachusetts. NORAD directed the joint intercept.

The Emirates flight originated in Dubai, but the suspect cargo originated in Yemen.

hey MrMachfivepointfive, don't be ashamed, adult illiteracy is a common problem.

Canadian/US fighter jets track aircraft (http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Canadian+fighter+jets+track+aircraft+interest+tied+Yemeni+bo mb+plot/3747937/story.html)

[Patty747400]

I guess we should be thankful to NORAD. Imagine if the "suspect cargo" had crawled out of the lower hold, entered the static ports, sneaked up through the ADC and attacked the crew?
If so the F15:s would have been really helpful so I don't think we should joke about such a serious issue.

[Trader]

Patty---of course they are not as omnipitant as you and, therefore, played it conservatively and had a few planes follow closely. Hardly a big deal!

[MumbaiRadio]

Hey Mr. 5.5 have you ever gone beyond 30deg of bank or you just wished you could fly an F15 but never got it?

[FlyingCroc]

Another American hoax :}

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!
" One may well ask: How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others? The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."-- Martin Luther King, Jr.




THE UPS TERROR FLIGHT FROM YEMEN THAT NEVER WAS!
Obama's "scare the Americans into voting Democratic" plan is already in trouble. The official story on Friday October 29th was that an unnamed ally issued a warning for British authorities to be on the lookout for a suspicious package sent from Yemen to Great Britain on a UPS flight. A search of the UPS flighty on the ground in Britain yielded a package containing a printer toner cartridge sprayed with a white substance that looks like plastic Christmas tree snow.



To make the "toner cartridge of death" look even scarier, a circuit board was attached to the outside with wires. Careful analysis of the card itself suggests it is a circuit card from a TV set, most likely the tuner, circa 1980s



Note carefully there is no battery to power this object, nor were any detonators found.

The initial reports of the toner cartridge reported no explosives were found in it.

Of course, Obama claimed exactly the opposite, which left the BBC struggling to placate the President while not allowing themselves to look like they were changing the original story to do it!


But the story gets better! The original claim was that the suspicious package originated in Yemen and flew to Britain on an aircraft owned by UPS, and the media showed us all the video of a UPS aircraft being stopped and searched on the runway in Britain.



But there is a problem. There are no UPS aircraft flying in and out of Yemen!

UPS own website (from before the so-called terror incident) does not list Yemen as one of their service regions.

A PDF file (which includes the history of the document from weeks ago) listing of all the international airports the UPS aircraft fleet flies to does not list Yemen as a destination!

In short, there was not and could not be a UPS aircraft flying out of Yemen.

UPS uses a subcontractor, Sun Tours, to handle shipping in and out of Yemen. Sun Tours sends their shipments via Yemenia Air, and Yemenia Air's Cargo Director reports there were no shipments sent through Yemen to Chicago for the 48 hours prior to the "discovery" of the toner cartridge in Britain.

A second claim that a flight from Dubais carried packages from Yemen has been refuted by the United Arab Emirates� Civil Aviation Authority.

In short a toner cartridge that cannot explode shows up on a UPS jet which could not have come from Yemen, and Obama pounds it for all its worth trying to save the Democrats next Tuesday. Frankly I think Americans should be outraged not that Obama tried such a stunt, but that after all the times Bush was caught using terror scares for political gain that Obama thinks you are all stupid enough to fall for it again! If tonight's polls are accurate, you weren't and you didn't and Obama may have just screwed his own party to the point where they are all praying for Diebold to save them!

[nolimitholdem]

Umm...care to list a "source" for this stellar reporting? Other than The Onion (http://www.theonion.com/)?

Your claim that the UAE CAA refuted the shipment directly contradicts CREDIBLE news agencies reporting that it was Saudi and UAE intelligence that led to the discovery of the packages!

Stop posting nonsense, please. The tin-foil hat crowd already has their own forum.