[AGL] false alarm or maybe the real thing

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Not much additional info on the Northwestern flight.
One of the passengers said that a dozen passengers
were passing cellphones around and changing their seats.

Dutch cops are interviewing them.

Jon, tell us please why you are going to Delhi. As
a tourist? Do the Indians have you fill out a card
with a space for "motive of the trip" like when
one goes to France?

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Ford" <jonmfordster at hotmail.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 5:39 PM
Subject: RE: [AGL] false alarm or maybe the real thing


> <The Dutch Defence Ministry said earlier the pilot decided to turn back
> <after the crew said several of the 149 passengers on flight 42 to Mumbai
> were
> <behaving suspiciously.
>
>
> Mike--they could have been drunk or maybe too much ganja-- "suspiciously"
> could mean almost anything these days. I'm headed for Delhi on September 
> 3,
> going through London on Virgin Airlines, and I refuse to be paranoid--the
> world is a beautiful place!
>
> Jon
> PS. bullet proof vests can be purchased in Mountain View Surplus for only
> $199. No I.D. needed!
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at ando.pair.com>
> Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the
> 60s<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
> To: <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
> Subject: [AGL] false alarm or maybe the real thing
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:06:49 -0500
>
> this item belongs in the category of newsbreaks that make the heart race
> faster -
>
> AMSTERDAM, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Dutch police arrested 12 passengers on a 
> U.S.
> Northwest Airlines plane bound for India which was forced to turn back to
> Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday, news agency ANP reported.
> ANP quoted a police spokesman as saying 12 were arrested, but declined to
> give further details due to the ongoing investigation.
>
> Police officials were not immediately available to comment.
>
> The Dutch Defence Ministry said earlier the pilot decided to turn back 
> after
> the crew said several of the 149 passengers on flight 42 to Mumbai were
> behaving suspiciously.
>
>
>
> Security has been increased at airports worldwide in the last two weeks
> after British police said they had foiled a plot by British Muslims to 
> blow
> up planes in the mid-Atlantic using liquid explosives disguised as drinks.
>
>
>