Monday, 14 August 2006
Mary Katharine Ham: False Alarm
Contributed by Bill Faith

See my previous related post here.

British airliner turned back over cell-phone ring:

A British Airways flight to New York was turned back to London's Heathrow airport on Sunday because of a security scare over a mobile phone that did not belong to any of the 217 passengers, officials said.

The phone was later found to be safe, as the government said the threat to Britain of a terrorist attack had been downgraded to severe from the critical level last week when police said they had foiled a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners.

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I don't think I'd use the term "false alarm" in this situation. Someone violated the newly tightened security regulations by having that phone on the plane. How many people were inconvenienced when that plane turned around and headed back to England? As far as I'm concerned, the person responsible deserves a major fine as a minimum.

Contributed by Bill Faith on August 14, 2006 at 08:50 AM | Permalink

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