Foxnews: Another hijacking??? Now!

OK, I don’t want to sound alarmist, but my friend’s wife called here at work and said that an Indian flight as in India was hijacked…

No details yet… does anyone have more to go on???

Check John’s thread. They’re saying this is more of a traditional hijacking and dont’ believe it has anything to do with the events of 9/11

Yes… here’s a link to what I originally saw:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,35678,00.html

That’s broken above, sorry.

Use this, you can figure out the rest:

fixed your url (hopefully this will work and i won’t look like an idiot)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,35678,00.html

Ah, the good old days!

Nope, look like an idiot.

It didn’t and you do :p. But it’s not your fault. the board software doesn’t like commas in urls. :slight_smile:

It works when you do it this way.

Nope, look like an idiot.

When oh when will people start to get clued in to the fact that Fox News is full of crap? There was no hijack.

http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1331366505

CONFUSION CREATES HIJACK DRAMA

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

NEW DELHI: After more than four hours of anxious moments, Union Civil Aviation Minister Shahnawaz Hussain said the supposed hijacking of the Alliance Air was a creation of confusion caused by false alarm received at the ATC Ahmedabad…

Chas, one thing I find is annoying the hell out of me is the willingness of the media to link anything and everything to terrorism at the moment. Apart from this practise creating unnecessary fear, I also wonder how many whackjobs who might never have taken any action whatsoever, will find the lure of the media spotlight irresistible - or how many nutcases with grand visions for retribution against society but no means of exacting it have been given very specific ideas about how they might achieve it over the past few weeks.

Fox News is, indeed, full of crap. And there apparently was no hijacking. But the two are not related in this instance. The story ran on CNN, Bloomberg News, the Dow Jones Newswires just that I’ve personally seen.

Heck, the poor folks at MSNBC haven’t even run a correction at the time of this post. Their last story has the plane on the ground surrounded by troops.

So pretty much everyone made an error here. For my own account, it smelled a little fishy – who the hell hijacks a plane to it’s intended destination?

Hijacker: I have a bomb! I demand to be taken to New Delhi!

Pilot: Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for choosing Alliance Air today. We’ll be arriving in, ahem, New Freakin’ Delhi in about 40 minutes.

I’m taking this plane over! It’s to go to it’s intended destination!

All right, don’t anybody move… except to control the aeroplane… you can move a little to do that. Obviously you can all move a little within reason. There are certain involuntary muscular movements which no amount of self-control can prevent.

Anyway, bearing all that in mind, will you fly this plane to Luton, please?

Doesn’t seem as though it was Fox’s fault . . .