Has The Airlines Lost ALL Common Sense?
A phone call would have stopped all this!OK, the radio broke down, wouldn't a phone call to the tower avoided all this show of force and passenger aggravation?
27 June 2018, 18:33
Bwana1I am sure that a mandatory response to the alarm is the policy. People tend to say what the gunman wants to hear when they have a gun held at their head. Situation needs to be checked out by law enforcement.
27 June 2018, 20:30
BuffHunter63Better safe than sorry. Airline staff (including pilots) need better training.
BH63
28 June 2018, 07:50
ftg767Would a phone call to the tower have helped? Sure, got the number? I might have been able to find it in, oh, 10 minutes or so. And if I did, AFTER using the hijack code, NO phone call would have mattered. Armed response was gonna happen just like it did. Sorry bout that, y'all remember 9/11? What did they expect? Oh, sorry bout that we screwed up? ONCE that code is used, you ARE going to be boarded and searched. End of discussion.
quote:
Originally posted by ftg767:
Would a phone call to the tower have helped? Sure, got the number? I might have been able to find it in, oh, 10 minutes or so. And if I did, AFTER using the hijack code, NO phone call would have mattered. Armed response was gonna happen just like it did. Sorry bout that, y'all remember 9/11? What did they expect? Oh, sorry bout that we screwed up? ONCE that code is used, you ARE going to be boarded and searched. End of discussion.
No one used a hijack code.
And hwo come an airliner has only one radio operational?
28 June 2018, 10:11
CougarzApparently the various media sources are reporting different things but from what I gathered he was texting and hit the wrong code number. Instead of radio not working he texted hijack.
Since I don't personally know the rules in this case the boarding by law enforcement may have been inevitable. But it seems to me if the two codes are so close together it must have happened before somewhere and there must be a way I would think to override it?
quote:
Originally posted by Cougarz:
Apparently the various media sources are reporting different things but from what I gathered he was texting and hit the wrong code number. Instead of radio not working he texted hijack.
Since I don't personally know the rules in this case the boarding by law enforcement may have been inevitable. But it seems to me if the two codes are so close together it must have happened before somewhere and there must be a way I would think to override it?
That is right if this what actually happened.
The reports I read said the radios were broken??
What a bloody idiot!