This is really scary - Was it a terrorist dry run ?

[njedpx3]

Sometimes the news media doesn't report what really happens:

This is what was reported:
http://www.khou.com/news/Phone-call-delays-Houston-bound-AirTran-flight-70369417.html


I am not sure of the complete validity of this email ( don't really have a email header chain of custody). So whoever is arming the "unsigned red chicklet cannon" please have mercy on me; just trying to provide information for discussion.

I, Gene Hackemack, received this email from my good friend Tedd Petruna, a diver at the NBL facility [Neutral Buoyancy Lab], at NASA Houston, whom I used to work with. Tedd happened to be on this same Flt. 297, Atlanta to Houston.
In my opinion, the Muslims are all getting very brave now, since they have one of their own in the white house......read Tedd's story below.
Semper Fi
PS...can you imagine, our own news media now are so politically correct that they are afraid to report that these were all Muslims? Unbelievable. Thank God for people like Tedd Petruna.
Gene Hackemack
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Brenham TX 77833
From: Petruna, Tedd J. (JSC-DX12)[RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY] <mailto:tedd.j.petruna@nasa.gov>
To: undisclosed-recipients
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 11:32 AM
One week ago, I went to Ohio on business and to see my father. On Tuesday, November the 17th, I returned home. If you read the papers the 18th you may have seen a blurb where a AirTran flight was canceled from Atlanta to Houston, due to a man who refused to get off of his cell phone before takeoff.
It was on Fox. This was NOT what happened.
I was in 1st class. 11 Muslim men got on the plane in full attire. 2 sat in 1st class and the rest peppered themselves throughout the plane, all the way to the back. As the plane taxied to the runway the stewardesses gave the safety spiel. At that time, one of the men got on his cell and called one of his companions in the back and proceeded to talk in Arabic very loudly and aggressively. The 1st stewardess repeatedly told the man that cell phones were not permitted at the time. He ignored her as if she was not there. The man who answered the phone did the same.
In the back of the plane, 2 younger Muslims, one in the back, isle, and one in front of him, began to show footage of a porno they had taped the night before, and were very loud about it.
The 3rd stewardess informed them that they were not to have electronic devices on at this time. One of the men said “shut up infidel dog!” She went to take the camcorder and he began to scream in her face in Arabic. At that exact moment, all 11 of them got up and started to walk the cabin. This is where I had had enough! I got up and started to the back. I heard a voice behind me from another Texan say “I got your back.”
I grabbed the man who had been on the phone by the arm and said “you WILL go sit down or you Will be thrown from this plane!” As I “led” him around me tohis seat, the fellow Texan grabbed him by the back of his neck and his waist and headed out with him.

I then grabbed the 2nd man and said, “You WILL do the same!” He protested but adrenaline was flowing now and he was going to go. As I escorted him forward the plane doors opened and 3 TSA agents and 4 police officers entered. My new Texan friend and I were told to cease and desist for they had this under control. I was happy to oblige. There was some commotion in the back, but within moments, all 11 were escorted off the plane.
We talked about the occurrence and were in disbelief that it had happened, when suddenly, the door opened again and on walked all 11! Stone faced, eyes front and robotic (the only way I can describe it). The stewardess from the back had been in tears and when she saw this, she was having NONE of it! I heard and saw the whole ordeal.
She told the TSA agent there was NO WAY she was staying on the plane with these men. The agent told her they had searched them and were going to go through their luggage with a fine tooth comb and that they were allowed to proceed to Houston. The captain and co-captain came out and told the agent “we and our crew will not fly this plane!” After a word or two, the entire crew, luggage in tow, left the plane. Five minutes later, the cabin door opened again and a whole new crew walked on.
Again…..this is where I had had enough!!! I got up and asked “What the hell is going on?” I was told to take my seat. They were sorry for the delay and I would be home shortly. I said “I’m getting off this plane”. The stewardess sternly told me that she could not allow me to get off. (now I’m mad!) I said “I am a grown man who bought this ticket, who’s time is mine with a family at home and I am going through that door!” And I heard a voice behind me say “so am I”. Then everyone behind us started to get up and say the same.
Within 2 minutes, I was walking off that plane. I was met by more agents who asked me to write a statement. I had 5 hours to kill at this point so why not. Due to the number of people who got off that flight, it was cancelled.
Look up the date. Flight 297 Atlanta to Houston.
If this wasn’t a dry run, I don’t know what one is. The terrorists wanted to see how TSA would handle it, how the crew would handle it, and how the passengers would handle it.
I’m telling this to you because I want you to know….The threat is real. I saw it with my own eyes….
-Tedd Petruna

However, if any of the above supposed email account is valid or true at all --- this is unbliveable and scary especialy inlight of some recent govenmental FOPAS - (1) not following up on Major Nidal Malik Hasan intercepted communications and (2) inability of Secret Service to vet White Housedinner attendees.

Peace ... and I hope Peace is in the future.

Later,

Forest Man

P.S. - Why is the global warming hoax being covered up ? Did the media already buy "Cap and Trade" credits?

 

[lsiberian]

It was a camera actually.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/flight297.asp

 

[JerryLove]

It reeks of false. The people involved don't behave realistically, the author describes himself as an idealized Clint Eastwood, and has omniscient knowledge of events.

More to the point: the TSA does not tell airlines who to fly, if a flight crew / parent company want to kick someone off, they can; also: once an airplane has returned to the terminal (which is the call of the flight crew and always has been) it's the local police, or FBI who are involved.

So it describes an argument that would never happen.

Further: A failure to follow the instructions of a flight crew is, itself, a crime. Again, there would be no argument. Anyone that disruptive would cause the plane to return to terminal and be arrested by the local police, if for nothing else, than for failing to comply with the instructions of the flight crew.

 

[njedpx3]

JerryLove,

That for the clearing response. See, you deserve those positive and signed green chicklet rep points I have given you in the past.

Didn't think it was true , but scary hypothetical stuff like that, even though it can't really be true, still gives you the wrong kind of goosebumps.

Tanks "<" sic ">"

Forest Man

 

[NicolasKL]

It reeks of false. The people involved don't behave realistically, the author describes himself as an idealized Clint Eastwood, and has omniscient knowledge of events.

Those are the first things I noticed too.

What's a FOPAS?

 

[njedpx3]

are signed red chicklets any better?

droht gave me a signed red chcklet not explaining why he disliked my post -Oh Well "from droht, just so you know "

Then i got a "blue" chcklet with the following rant:

"Obama is not a Muslim, and this email spam is ridiculous, if you have difficulty telling whether this is totally true or not, I suggest you not respond to any emails you receive from Nigerian Princes needing to depost hordes of $ in your bank account"

I am not sure what blue means or why someone felt the need to send me the above.

Peace brothers,

Forest Man

 

[NicolasKL]

droht gave me a signed red chcklet not explaining why he disliked my post -Oh Well "from droht, just so you know "

And you feel it's undeserved?

 

[njedpx3]

And you feel it's undeserved?

Yes I feel it undeserved, especially if there is no reason explaining why. OH I get it now a "blue" chicklet is "disapproval" from someone like you with a red chicklet rating. Was that your rant ?


Peace to All including you NicolasKL

Forest Man

 

[NicolasKL]

Yes I feel it undeserved

I think posting ANY mass email is more than enough for a red chicklet, whether it's one like this or one of the ones where you get a hundred bucks from Bill Gates if you forward it to 20 people. I have email filters so I don't have to read gibberish like that, I'd rather not read it on a forum either.

The fact that the one YOU posted has so many obviously trolling aspects, so many obviously false aspects, and that you obviously never even bothered to do a 30 second google search to check it, makes it even worse.

And if that weren't enough, you follow it up with "P.S. - Why is the global warming hoax being covered up ? Did the media already buy "Cap and Trade" credits?" just to get a little bit more trolly, as if there weren't any other threads about global warming.

You deserved it.