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[height of stupidity] Arabic-style writing prompts flight cancellation
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| AnotherWay83 |
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/09/2...d.ap/index.html
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- Midwest Airlines canceled a flight ready to take off for San Francisco after a passenger found Arabic-style handwriting in the company's in-flight magazine and alerted the crew.
The plane, carrying 118 passengers and five crew members, had already pulled away from the gate at Mitchell International Airport Sunday evening. It returned to the gate, the passengers got off, security authorities were notified, all luggage was checked and the aircraft was inspected. Nothing was found.
The passengers were put up in nearby hotels and booked on a Monday morning flight.
The writing was in Farsi, the language used in Iran, said airline spokeswoman Carol Skornicka. She said she didn't know exactly what the writing said but was similar to a prayer, "something of a contemplative nature." |
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| Urbanmessiah |
| I don't get it how is safety stupid? |
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| Spacey Orange |
| Safety is never stupid. I don't think the previous author tried to convey that. The stupidity, i believe the writer tried to highlite, is inferring that that there is a threat to the plane and its passengers because there is writing in arabic script in a magazine. These are entirely two different things. |
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| AnotherWay83 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Spacey Orange
Safety is never stupid. I don't think the previous author tried to convey that. The stupidity, i believe the writer tried to highlite, is inferring that that there is a threat to the plane and its passengers because there is writing in arabic script in a magazine. These are entirely two different things. |
exactly. since when did anything written in arabic automatically mean there was a terrorist threat?? :rolleyes: |
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| imokruok |
| Who actually picks up, reads, and then writes in the in-flight magazine? Only the freaking terrorists, that's who. |
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