AA109 returns to LHR
Too mean to buy a long personal title
www.aa.com says "FLIGHT STATUS - CANCELLED".
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Originally Posted by flyerire
Think you have incorrect information. According to "flytecomm", it is due to arrive in Boston at 12:49 and is currently enroute on schedule.
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It returned due to a mechanical problem and the flight is now cancelled.
It will either ferry empty or go with pax tomorrow if the problem is fixed.
Most of the pax have already been booked on other flights tonight.
It will either ferry empty or go with pax tomorrow if the problem is fixed.
Most of the pax have already been booked on other flights tonight.
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Originally Posted by HEATHROW DIRECTOR
Thinks: So why did it need to land opposite direction?
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From AP:
LONDON - A London-to-Boston flight was called back to Heathrow Airport on Monday after U.S. authorities discovered a passenger's name was on their "no-fly" list, officials said. Four passengers were being questioned by border control officers.
American Airlines Flight 109, a Boeing 777, left London at 10:55 a.m. (5:55 a.m. EDT) headed for Boston, said Tim Wagner, a spokesman for the Fort Worth, Texas-based airline.
"The flight returned to Heathrow due to a security issue that needed to be resolved in London," he said. "It was not a security threat to the aircraft. The flight was in no danger."
Wagner provided no other details.
Phil Orlandella, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Port Authority, which runs Boston's Logan Airport, said staff were told at a meeting Monday morning that the name of a passenger on the flight matched one on the no-fly list. He had no further information.
"Out of an abundance of caution, Homeland Security determined the flight would not be allowed to land in Boston," a U.S. Homeland Security Department official said in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.
He said no unusual activity was reported aboard the plane.
The man, traveling with three women identified as his mother and two sisters, was taken into custody for questioning by British and U.S. authorities, the Homeland Security official said.
The official, who did not know the suspect passenger's age or nationality, said the three women traveling with him were not taken into custody.
But London's Metropolitan Police said port and border control officials were questioning four passengers removed from the flight. Police did not specify who they were.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration's "no-fly" list was established after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to prevent people who may have terrorist ties from boarding commercial flights.
LONDON - A London-to-Boston flight was called back to Heathrow Airport on Monday after U.S. authorities discovered a passenger's name was on their "no-fly" list, officials said. Four passengers were being questioned by border control officers.
American Airlines Flight 109, a Boeing 777, left London at 10:55 a.m. (5:55 a.m. EDT) headed for Boston, said Tim Wagner, a spokesman for the Fort Worth, Texas-based airline.
"The flight returned to Heathrow due to a security issue that needed to be resolved in London," he said. "It was not a security threat to the aircraft. The flight was in no danger."
Wagner provided no other details.
Phil Orlandella, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Port Authority, which runs Boston's Logan Airport, said staff were told at a meeting Monday morning that the name of a passenger on the flight matched one on the no-fly list. He had no further information.
"Out of an abundance of caution, Homeland Security determined the flight would not be allowed to land in Boston," a U.S. Homeland Security Department official said in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.
He said no unusual activity was reported aboard the plane.
The man, traveling with three women identified as his mother and two sisters, was taken into custody for questioning by British and U.S. authorities, the Homeland Security official said.
The official, who did not know the suspect passenger's age or nationality, said the three women traveling with him were not taken into custody.
But London's Metropolitan Police said port and border control officials were questioning four passengers removed from the flight. Police did not specify who they were.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration's "no-fly" list was established after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to prevent people who may have terrorist ties from boarding commercial flights.
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As if any "terrorist" would travel under his right name to the US sheesh !
I recently had to apply for a US visa and one of the questions was (amongst a bunch of other inane ones) was "do you intend to engage in terrorist activities" !!
Yeah right and the answer to that would be yes????
I know they are paranoid re 911 and rightly so, but do they honestly think that anyone right minded or not would answer yes to that question?
How much money has homeland security cost AA for that little episode.
I recently had to apply for a US visa and one of the questions was (amongst a bunch of other inane ones) was "do you intend to engage in terrorist activities" !!
Yeah right and the answer to that would be yes????
I know they are paranoid re 911 and rightly so, but do they honestly think that anyone right minded or not would answer yes to that question?
How much money has homeland security cost AA for that little episode.
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I thought US authorities got the pax list hours before take-off & I assume they use computers to compare names, so why the delay in ident?
Must have an advanced copy of MS Vista!
... or Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Ali trying to sneak back in with a News of the World 'sheikh' in tow!
Must have an advanced copy of MS Vista!
... or Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Ali trying to sneak back in with a News of the World 'sheikh' in tow!
So if there really is a security concern .....
Why are the US authorities unhappy to accept this flight into Boston or into any remote Air Force base in the US but are quite happy to send it back to overfly populated areas at its origin ?
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Why are the US authorities unhappy to accept this flight into Boston or into any remote Air Force base in the US but are quite happy to send it back to overfly populated areas at its origin ?
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Originally Posted by WHBM
So if there really is a security concern .....
Why are the US authorities unhappy to accept this flight into Boston or into any remote Air Force base in the US but are quite happy to send it back to overfly populated areas at its origin ?
Why are the US authorities unhappy to accept this flight into Boston or into any remote Air Force base in the US but are quite happy to send it back to overfly populated areas at its origin ?
Originally Posted by WHBM
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