TSA Searches Plane on 'Psychic' Tip
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TSA Searches Plane on 'Psychic' Tip
Looks like bold new technical methods are being employed:
Posted on Sat, Mar. 27, 2004
Psychic prompts search of passenger jet in Fort Myers
Associated Press
FORT MYERS, Fla. - A psychic's warning that a bomb might be on a Dallas-bound passenger jet at Southwest Florida International Airport prompted federal and local officials to search it with bomb-sniffing dogs.
Nothing suspicious was found on American Airlines Flight 1304, but the delay Friday caused the flight to be canceled because some crew members had exceeded their work hours when the search was finished, officials said.
Doug Perkins, the local Transportation Security Administration director, said the psychic's call was "unusual."
"But in these times, we can't ignore anything. We want to take the appropriate measures," he said.
The crew was evacuated from the plane, but none of the 128 passengers had boarded yet, Perkins said.
TSA officials wouldn't say where the call was made from or who it was made to.
An American Airlines spokesman also said the call came from a psychic, but said the company was notified about it by TSA. The passengers were placed on other flights that left later Friday and Saturday.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald...te/8292753.htm
Posted on Sat, Mar. 27, 2004
Psychic prompts search of passenger jet in Fort Myers
Associated Press
FORT MYERS, Fla. - A psychic's warning that a bomb might be on a Dallas-bound passenger jet at Southwest Florida International Airport prompted federal and local officials to search it with bomb-sniffing dogs.
Nothing suspicious was found on American Airlines Flight 1304, but the delay Friday caused the flight to be canceled because some crew members had exceeded their work hours when the search was finished, officials said.
Doug Perkins, the local Transportation Security Administration director, said the psychic's call was "unusual."
"But in these times, we can't ignore anything. We want to take the appropriate measures," he said.
The crew was evacuated from the plane, but none of the 128 passengers had boarded yet, Perkins said.
TSA officials wouldn't say where the call was made from or who it was made to.
An American Airlines spokesman also said the call came from a psychic, but said the company was notified about it by TSA. The passengers were placed on other flights that left later Friday and Saturday.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald...te/8292753.htm
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"But in these times, we can't ignore anything. We want to take the appropriate measures," he said.
I officially would like to get off this planet now. Could we stop at the nearest semi intelligent world please.
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Lookslike ye good ole folks at TSA are "nut" one strawberry short of a fruitcake anyomore but have gone just a bit over the top.
Reminds me on Nancy and Ronnie the Raygun in the 80's running US of A with the help of shamans psychics and other witchdoctors...
I wonder if being psychic would make a well paid and rewarding carreer in the SS, sorry TSA? Do they have 401K's?
JJ
Reminds me on Nancy and Ronnie the Raygun in the 80's running US of A with the help of shamans psychics and other witchdoctors...
I wonder if being psychic would make a well paid and rewarding carreer in the SS, sorry TSA? Do they have 401K's?
JJ
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Doug Perkins, the local Transportation Security Administration director, said the psychic's call was "unusual." But in these times, we can't ignore anything.
The fact that it plays straight into the hands of Al Qaeda or bankrupts the airlines along the way is neither here nor there.
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So what action did the TSA take against the said 'Psychic' for wasting their time?!
Great idea next time you want to make a hoax bomb threat - just tell the TSA you 'have seen a vision...'
It gets worse
Great idea next time you want to make a hoax bomb threat - just tell the TSA you 'have seen a vision...'
It gets worse
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From: Oz now!
At Lax recently whilst waiting in the queue with my crew, to be systematically defrocked by the TSA (COME ON HOW ABOUT A SUITABLE ACRONYM FOR THEM). I was just about to go through the metal detector when a rather obese TSA agent just walked in front of me. I called out 'excuse me', but he ignored me. So I tapped him on the shoulder and said 'Excuse me I don't mind you going ahead, but...' that's as far as I got. He turned around and said. 'Buddy you've just committed a Federal offence, so be careful.' What can you do??????
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From the Fort Myers News-Press, one of the flight crew seems to have been spooked by the psychic.
The crew of American Airlines Flight 1304 was evacuated while bomb-detecting dogs and members of the Transportation Security Administration and Port Authority Police searched for explosives, said Doug Perkins, local TSA director.
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Paul Moss, vacationing from Minnesota, was scheduled to make the Dallas trip. He said security — some in uniform, some in plainclothes — showed up at the gate about a half-hour before departure.
“Nobody would tell us what was the problem, only that they had a problem with (the steward),” Moss said as he waited for a 6 p.m. Continental flight.
One flight crew member felt uncomfortable about the flight, Perkins said.
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Paul Moss, vacationing from Minnesota, was scheduled to make the Dallas trip. He said security — some in uniform, some in plainclothes — showed up at the gate about a half-hour before departure.
“Nobody would tell us what was the problem, only that they had a problem with (the steward),” Moss said as he waited for a 6 p.m. Continental flight.
One flight crew member felt uncomfortable about the flight, Perkins said.
Nice
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Perhaps the 'warning' by the psychic was treated so seriously in case it was a coded warning from some nut ??!
Struggling to think of another explanation for this frankly bizarre state of affairs.
Its truly a bad day for aviation when mystic bloody meg can get an aircraft grounded and searched though.
Struggling to think of another explanation for this frankly bizarre state of affairs.
Its truly a bad day for aviation when mystic bloody meg can get an aircraft grounded and searched though.
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I seem to remember suggesting the ancient Roman method of examining the entrails of a chicken as a means of divining the success or failure of a voyage as a replacement for the TSA. Clearly they are coming around to my way of thinking. Policy by PPRuNe..you can't beat it!
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Too many dangerous psychics around!
After 9/11 I remember a psychic, wearing a pilot jacket, told everybody "Go to Iraq!!!".
People were so afraid they went there and found nothing.
World would be better without psychic leaders!
People were so afraid they went there and found nothing.
World would be better without psychic leaders!
