Two fighter planes force Northwest flight to return to Amsterdam
 

so the BBC is reporting as breaking news. I haven't seen the story elsewhere. They are reporting people being removed from the plane when it landed back in Amsterdam.

Reuters has a tiny story:

US plane turned back to Dutch airport: report

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Two fighter planes have turned back an aircraft belonging to U.S. airline Northwest and accompanied it to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, Dutch news agency ANP reported on Wednesday.

It quoted a police spokesman as saying a number of people had been taken off the plane but gave no further details. Neither Schiphol airport nor Dutch police were available to comment.

foxnews is reporting it. dont see it on cnn. its on the ground

YARGH! It be a news alert on the main page of cnn.com but nothing details wise, just that supposedly a number of people (7) are being questioned.

they are all probably working off the same two paragraph news wire report at the moment

The Associated Press reports Dutch F-16s escorted a Northwest Airlines flight bound for India back to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport and that authorities later detained several passengers for questioning, an airport spokeswoman said.

They just wanted to chat to some passengers on the way to India :winkwink:

From Associated Press---

is this really worth posting?

just some fake alert probably, same like 10 days ago when an old lady had a panic attack on a plane whcih caused an emergency landing

Must have been SNAKES ON A PLANE

Pssst Hisss

Muslims On A Mother Fucking Plane!!!

Yeah I heard the fighters...Curious what happend. Probably fake alarm

maybe there was snakes on it

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

How is it any less worth posting than most other threads posted this morning? Sometimes the panic is the story too.

Doh this had fallen to the second page. I made a new thread.... :Oh crap :Oh crap my bad.

You haven't seen what's being posted on GFY lately, have you? Compared to most crap on here, this is as postworthy as it can be.

it happens :)

Get Those Muslims off my Mother Fucking Plane

You know what they should do is have everyone that is going to fly do a pre flight ( like days or weeks before) sign in of some sort. Like if you pre submit for a background check or something as an opt in. Those that do the pre submit and verify they are not involved in anything shady get a special card with like fingerprint id on it, and make it have a untamperable chip on it. Any passenger that has that card gets sped along through customs and security. You couldnt force it of course, but for those that know they are doing nothing wrong could have like a quick pass. Im sure some people would say that would be giving up freedom of privacy, but frankly those with nothing to hide would rather do that then waste time every trip. Make the card good for 2 years or something. Innocent people would line up to do it for sure.

here we go again

so will the terrorists with clean bg :winkwink:

Fuck terrorism..... bet it was a couple of wacky dutchmen lighting up a cigarette in the back - a far more serious offence than carrying bomb components....

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

You, sir, are dumb as a brick.

Dutch agency is saying 12 people from the flight have been arrested.

How is that dumb? You would still have to go through security as normal. I know I would have no problem with a background check. The only ones that would have a problem would be those with something to hide imo.

yes but not everyone about to do something bad would have something in their background that would flag them up

everyone should take boats!!

Because anything like that would make "clean" people easy targets for recruitment and when that happens you can kiss the whole security buh-bye.

That makes sense.. So those clean people would be keen to blow themselves to bits for a cause they have no stake in....... :uhoh

people were looking around.........i like that reasoning

yup.. you have al quaida calling people from the international Christian Gospel choir

"hey dude.. you have one of those cards..?"
yeah. was screened yesterday and received it today!
"ok.. well in that case.. i need you to do something for me"

When I read the thread title the first time, and before I looked at the article that the plane had been forced to "return" to Amsterdam, I figured some GFYer was just trying to have the flight diverted so that he could catch the Amsterdam webmaster's show, hehe.

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