Yeah....I'm not getting on a plane for the foreseeable future

[Nevilledog]

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Kim Zetter
@KimZetter
What is happening? This is the second time someone has done something like this in a week. Tweet says he tried to hijack plane but followup tweet say he was trying to open the door to the outside.

AB
@alifuckingburns
Someone tried hijacking our plane from LAX to ATL
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[Buckeye_Democrat]

1. Another victim of "corona-brain".

Joking, but it wouldn't surprise me sometimes. That virus infected brains too.

[BradAllison]

2. ....

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[2naSalit]

3. I consider myself fortunate...

I flew twice this month and am thankful both flights were uneventful.

[msongs]

4. trying to open a door is hijacking. altering the course the plane will fly to...straight down nt

[greenjar_01]

5. It's physically not possible to open the door

Passengers and crew acted appropriately.

[WHITT]

6. DIY

and the passengers had to take him down and restrain him. Where the hell are the Air Marshalls? What next, ya gotta bring your own rope and zip ties? They replace the oxy mask demo with a hog-tie demo?

[BigmanPigman]

7. That's what I was thinking as well.

Maybe it's time to have security on every single flight these days. The airlines would probably charge extra for that too.

[Effete Snob]

10. There are around 6,000 US commercial flights per day

You’ll need a force of about 2/3 the size of the LAPD. They don’t exist.

[LudwigPastorius]

8. The ratio of daily flights to Air Marshals is huge.

There is something like a 1% chance there is an Air Marshal on a domestic flight you take.

[Effete Snob]

12. With no difference in outcome

One person with a gun would not have changed the outcome here.

[JI7]

13. Yes, these days passengers will stop someone physically

because of 9-11.

[COL Mustard]

16. And They Take Seats From Paying Customers

The airlines really don't like that!

[USALiberal]

18. Are you serious??? Nt

[captain queeg]

29. Marshals aren't on every flight, it's random

Maybe they have some pattern that’s not public. A guy in my ex’s family was an Air Marshal. What a horrible job, riding around on planes and staying at per diem hotels.

[barbtries]

9. oh boy.

i'll be flying to indianapolis later this month and in August, back home to CA. LAX.

ironically, i've been going through a health crisis and it was thought I had DVT, but I don't, so I get to fly!

it'll be okay. that's my mantra. i don't doubt that we're all still at greater risk statistically from driving cars right down here on earth.

[Effete Snob]

11. Yes. Driving on the freeway will get you shot

No passenger on this plane was harmed.

[barbtries]

22. i'm not looking forward to flying

but am looking forward to a change in scenery, all the money i'll make, and come August, going home!

up until early 2019, i was a frequent traveler. once i get on the plane, pretty much all i want from that point is to get back off the plane. Nowadays there's this outbreak of incivility, the resurgence of frank and open racism, and the fact that i will be wearing a mask in the airport and on the plane.

my plane being hijacked is so far down on my list of things to fret about! (cross fingers wink)

[Tanuki]

14. I thought this was going to be another cicadas-in-the-engine story!

If the hijackers don't get you, the cicadas will!
🛩 🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲

https://www.google.com/amp/s/slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/cicadas-ground-biden-press-plane-engine.amp

"Up and down the east coast, cicadas are everywhere these days: on trees, fences, mail boxes, your clothes, you name it. The cicada invasion amounts, mostly, to an annoyance, that is, until you find out cicadas have flooded the engine of the airplane you’re about to board. On Tuesday evening, that’s the news the presidential press corps received just before the scheduled departure of the chartered flight full of journalists set to accompany President Joe Biden on his trip to Europe. The plane’s engine had been flooded with the insects, so many that it wasn’t safe to fly.

“The White House press charter, flying from Dulle­s to Europe ahead of President Biden, has been delayed for hours—due to mechanical issues caused by cicadas,” Associated Press journalist Jonathan Lemire tweeted late Tuesday. “Yes. Cicadas.” The swarm of the insects which, as you probably already know, join us by the kajillion every 17 years for the summer ultimately grounded the flight for hours, pushing the departure from 9 p.m. Tuesday night until past 2 a.m. Wednesday morning."...(more)

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[HipChick]

19. cicada's are about done...

They've reached their peak...

[barbtries]

23. thank you for that.

i live in the lucky part of NC after all, and don't fly until the 28th. so let me delete that from my fret list.

[Freddie]

15. Flying to Florida for a long weekend in 2 weeks

Ugh. Hopefully the nutcases don’t like “no frills” airlines, we’re flying Frontier, the only airline that flies to Palm Beach Airport from here. This is the airport that the former guy wanted to name for himself thankfully Palm Beach County refused.

[TraceNC]

17. 30,000 domestic flights per day in the US.

Even if this happened every single day (hell, twice!) it still would be statistically insignificant.

[HipChick]

20. Flying outside the country in a couple of weeks...

It's a shame you have to think about carrying zip-ties or duct tape in your carry on...

[mn9driver]

25. The airlines stock "Tuff Cuffs" on the airplanes and train crews in their use.

They are much more effective than the zip ties you might find at the hardware store, although they do have a resemblance.

[USALiberal]

21. Do the math! Nt

[ZonkerHarris]

24. Flying back to LAX tomorrow. Hope the flight is idiot free

[mn9driver]

26. The airlines recently began serving alcohol again. Combine that with

the fact that a lot of people are taking psychoactive medications due to the stress and isolation of the last year, and the enhanced effect of 7000 feet of cabin altitude, and you are going to have events like this.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

27. I took a flight in May and had no issues

[DFW]

28. We don't have much choice

Train service between Düsseldorf and Boston sucks. Besides, the bridge has been washed out forever.

[ShazamIam]

30. Interesting isn't, supposedly all this data is being collected about us that is suppose to predict if

we are a threat. But 3 mass shootings in the news today and we keep reading about crazies on airplanes.


But we do fear expressing out ideas when on line even if they are only political and economic statements.

Tax the rich, and for the ones who have reached out to Putin for political power, and supporting Trump's lie, let's confiscate their wealth and add it to the paychecks and Social Security checks that have been severely reduced by 40 years of wage suppression, and the U.S. treasury.

https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/asset-seizure-and-forfeiture-a-basic-guide