It's starting to look like every nut in the world is flying out of Britain these days. We'll have to wait to see if the search turns anything up. Also, what's the deal with the women yesterday? Reports still say she had a screwdriver, water bottle, etc. Out of Heathrow? So much for increased security. Geesh!
Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- An Excel Airways passenger jet headed for Egypt was forced to make an emergency landing in the southern Italian coastal town of Brindisi after a note was found saying a bomb was on board, Italian police said.
The plane carrying 280 passengers landed at about 3:00 p.m. in Italy after a passenger found a handwritten note in English saying ``There is a bomb on this aircraft,'' policeman Salvatore de Paolis said in a telephone interview.
Several people who were on board are being questioned and bomb experts are searching the aircraft with dogs, de Paolis said.
The pilot requested an emergency landing and was escorted by an F16 fighter jet, de Paolis said. The plane was a Boeing 767 from Excel, a discount carrier based in the U.K., that took off from Gatwick Airport bound for Hurghada, an Egyptian beach resort.
No, every nut in the world isn't flying out of Britain. My theory is thay two-thirds of the population of the world is crazy in some medically-defined way, so these two incidents only support that hypothesis. And I am serious. The longer I live, the more I realize that a large number of people are NUTS. If you disagreean then you need to get out more.
And yes, at least some of those crazy people are on airplanes every day. Ask any flight attendant.
Posted by: jamie | Friday, August 18, 2006 at 07:14 PM