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Odd Airline News - OT Humor



OMG. Is it true? All you guys use it? What you have a time share with the thing? Gack!!!

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>From: Tonee Northam [mailto:pb3vr6@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 01:01 AM
>To: haygood@myway.com, scirocco-l@scirocco.org, khaygood@pol.net
>Subject: Re: Odd Airline News - OT Humor
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>The best part.....
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> "It's normal," he said. "Half of America they use it." 
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>Brian Haygood <haygood@myway.com> wrote:
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>So I was going to write in to point out some odd stuff in the news about the airlines today. The first was almost worth writing about...
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>Apparently the fine AP reporter of this article needed an expert to comment on whether dynamite on an airplane is bad. Good thing she found someone with a degree in aeronautics to explain this complex situation:
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>>Bill Waldock, aviation safety professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Arizona, said the incident could have been disastrous and raises questions about security in overseas airports. Dynamite can be unstable if it's old, he added.
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>>"You're in a pressurized airplane, you get a detonation in the cargo hold, it could blow a hole in the airplane big enough to bring it down," he said.
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>Wow. He really knows his stuff.
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>The second also ALMOST seemed worth writing about, but not quite...
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>> A United Airlines flight out of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport was delayed because a small boy said something inappropriate, according to a government official speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information. "He didn't want to fly," the official said.
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>Well, it became worth it as soon as the rest of the story was published. Turns out the guy did want to fly, and was just misunderstood. Boy was he. I'm assuming only one minor got picked up in Chicago today, so this must be the same guy. Don't miss this link...
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>http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060824/D8JN2B3O1.html
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>Wow. Poor guy. He will be surprised when he gets back to school that suddenly he has no friends ...except those two creepy chicks he's never seen before.
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>BH
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