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CAIRO (AP) â British fighter aircraft escorted a plane from Cairo bound for New York to an emergency landing in the U.K. after a passenger discovered a letter onboard threatening to blow up the aircraft, officials said Saturday.
Flight 985 to John F. Kennedy Airport had around 300 passengers onboard when it was diverted to Glasgow's Prestwick Airport after a passenger found the letter in a lavatory, EgyptAir chairman Tawfiq Assi said.
Originally posted by Lady_Tuatha
reply to post by Ramcheck
Or a teenager could have written it. It is also weird that they would keep the passengers on board for a further 3 hours after it landed at Glasgow, you would think they would question them off the plane? especially if there was a chance they could be in danger. I would not be a happy bunny on that flight!
BBC employee Nada Tafik claimed she found the handwritten note in the bathroom of the aircraft, which said: "I set this plane on fire" and also had a seat number noted next to it.
Originally posted by Lady_Tuatha
The flight is now being checked by a technical team which includes bomb disposal experts. Passengers were let off to wait in Glasgow's airport, and officials are also looking into their backgrounds. Hopefully they get to continue their journey soon.
Seems a strange thing to do, if you planned on blowing up a plane why leave a note in the bathroom? Hopefully it was just some loony after attention and nothing more sinister.
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A systempunkt is a point in a system reactive to many small interactions, which through a network of objects in a surrounding environment or dependent network, exhibits a cascading collapse in the specific system and possibly the networked components. A systempunkt may be vulnerable to operational failure, but it is neither vulnerable because of operation or location, but rather its operation interacts through communication, exchange or movement of objects and these disrupted dependencies of flows of data, or goods will be the failure when it is no longer operating. The effects on the network are more significant than those on the specific object.
The flight was Cairo to New York, now im not claiming to know flight routes, but is Glasgow anywhere near the route this plane would fly? also, was Glasgow chosen as a divert destination simply because it was the nearest airport at the time the alarm was raised? or does Glasgow/Prestwick Airport have some kind of specialist anti-terrorist team based there?