First, read this newstory HERE and this newstory HERE about a Continental Airlines flight to Bogota, Colombia that was diverted to Jacksonville, FL when someone apparently identified a person the passenger manifest as being on the “no fly” list.

First, how did someone manage to board the aircraft if their name was on the “no fly” list?  That would seem to imply a breakdown either at Continental or the TSA itself.  Just because the TSA seems intent on blowing it at every chance, I’ll speculate it was a problem on the TSA’s end. 

Second, note this paragraph:

The situation was quite scary for the 75 passengers aboard Continental flight 881 in light of the Christmas day attempted bombing of a Detroit flight by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

Really?  They were all sitting there terrified?   I think the journalist is engaging in a bit of fantasy here.  I guarantee you that those passengers were kept in the dark about this and the reason given for a diversion wasn’t not “Ladies and Gentlemen, we might have a terrorist on board so please keep your seat belts fastened while we divert the aircraft so this person can be met by the FBI.”  

More than likely, unspecified but routine reasons were given and there was no activity on board other than the loud sighs of passengers being inconvenienced again. 

Shame on the journalists for writing such garbage.

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