Fighter Jets Escort Plane to Vancouver

[alp227]

Source: Associated Press

Filed at 9:02 p.m. ET

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Canadian fighter jets escorted a Cathay Pacific airliner incoming from Hong Kong to a safe landing in Vancouver International Airport on Saturday due to a potential security threat, a North American Aerospace Defense Command spokesperson said.

The Canadian Press news agency cited Canadian Defense department officials as saying there was a bomb threat aboard Flight CX838, but they could not provide details.

Television images showed the plane on an isolated stretch of tarmac, where it had been towed away from the main airport terminal.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/15/world/AP-CN-Canada-Plane-Threat.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

[elias49]

1. The daily scare

Can't wait for tomorrow's boogie-man.

[eagertolearn]

2. What could a fighter plane do to help out...that would only of freaked out

if I saw that. Actually if there was possibly a bomb on board i would not have wanted to know!

[havocmom]

3. Um, shoot it down if it veered off course and headed to a strategic target?

You know, like the USAF and/or NORAD SHOULD have done on 9-11, except for that stand down order....

[sybster1000]

4. Do you think that happened over Pennsylvania?

I know some former Armed Services people who think that the plane that "crashed' over PA was actually taken down. It was over countryside so no/few civilians would be harmed. The pictures show the plane to be in total debris..barely recognizable.

[hack89]

5. There was no stand down

that's a Truther myth.

[havocmom]

6. So, USAF and NORAD are just completely incompent?

That seems unlikely.

They sent fighters up when that small jet with the golfer in in failed to respond. They just couldn't do it on 9-11?

Yeah, just truther stuff... USAF can't protect because, well, why? Logic suggests they could and just didn't or they can't and we are paying a lot for nothing.

[Michigan-Arizona]

7. +1

[lonestarnot]

8. +2

K & R for this post alone! And wasn't the guy in charge of that, wasn't 9/11 his first day on the job? or was that another guy? or just a coinkydink? I can't recall now, but there was added confussion due to a major player not knowing whether to wind his ass or scratch his watch because it was his first day on the job. Another forum I know. :)

[Devil_Fish]

10. agree. N/T

[boppers]

11. They sent fighters up on 9/11.

Repeating bizarre truther claims doesn't make them true....

http://www.attackonamerica.net/ordersattimeofimpact.html
http://www.attackonamerica.net/pentagontrackeddeadlyjet.html

[hack89]

12. It took over an hour and a half to intercept Payne Stewart's plane

it was an ad hoc affair using unarmed planes already on training flights. Dedicated interceptors were not used.

A simple challenge I have asked many truthers - none of which could answer. Show me where the Air Force has ever routinely intercepted airliners over the continental US - they only intercepted unidentified planes approaching US airspace. Research ADIZ and ask yourself why the first overland ADIZs were not put in place until after 911.

[Old Troop]

9. North American air defense is pretty much a myth.

A few Air National Guard units (with superb men and women), but no active interceptor force.

[hack89]

13. Post 911 it is very robust

pre-911 you are correct.