Comments on: Flight 924 and alleged bombs

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 06:13:15 +0000

I was referring to a “voluntary ” data base to protect the truly disabled from the functuly disabled (I.E. an air marshall who apparrenty hears things other passengers do not). Jan

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:20:05 +0000

Hi Jan: I'm sure that anyone with medical insurance with prescription coverage has correlating commercial database entries somewhere detailing any medicines purchased under the plan.

Cracking medical privacy open to "airline agencies" seems a real can of worms of questionable benefit with lots of unintentional consequences.

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:41:17 +0000

I believe a registry network should be invoked to notify airline agencies prior to the boarding of any aircraft of potential passengers suffering from mental afflictions, or the requirement of medications for said state. This would alleviate the suspicion that a spouse, knowing the state of aggitation which exists in the airline industry, could knowingly restrict access to medication prior to boarding, after previously securing a large insurance policy. Plus, the airline marshals’ would have specific knowledge and focus ahead of time on said individual.

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:22:20 +0000

Another fair-use news snippet relating to the incident. The following link is to the Orlando Sentinel, anyone interested in witness reports should read it. While the reporter doesn't quote and name seven witnesses, that is the number of witnesses this report claimed to confirm that Alpizar wasn't heard saying much of anything as he ran up the airliner's aisle.

A Miami-Dade police spokeswoman said Thursday that multiple witnesses reported that the 44-year-old was yelling that he had a bomb as he made his way down the aisle with a backpack slung across his chest. Later, the agency's chief of investigations insisted that Alpizar was yelling about a bomb but declined to say whether he was on the plane at the time. ... "I can tell you, he never said a thing in that airplane. He never called out he had a bomb," said Orlando architect Jorge A. Borrelli, who helped comfort Alpizar's wife after the gunfire. "He never said a word from the point he passed me at Row 9. . . . He did not say a word to anybody." www.orlandosentinel.com/...

I notice that "police spokeswoman" and "chief of investigations" are unnamed.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 03:58:53 +0000

I've had uncomfortable moments on airliners when I felt claustrophobic. You're so stuck on one of those things, and they're cramped and crowded. Other passengers are sometimes inconsiderate and the seats are far too close together. If someone reclines their seat in front of me on some of those planes, their head is practically in my lap. I've had someone refuse to let me by to use the lavatory, or hog the armrest. My only recourse when I had to travel was to take a good novel and lose myself in the story, in effect tuning out the experience. I can see how someone who's already a little unstable might have a real problem with that, and I can empathize with the potential for outburst.

I don't know what really happened on that flight, but the inconsistency of the stories bothers me. So who's the terrorist, anyway? Are we so terrorized that we'll kill anyone just on the off chance they may be a terrorist? Is there no other way the authorities can subdue someone acting out on an airplane? Is your life expendable if you're mentally ill? Seems to me when we get to this point maybe the real terrorists have won.