So guess what happened right before my flight was scheduled to leave from LHR airport in London on Thursday, August 10? Give up? Well I'll tell you. At five ante meridian London time, approximately midnight here, the United Kingdom police and the security staff at all U.K. based airports were told to act on a security notice that there was to be a bombing involving airplanes flying out of the U.K. towards the United States of America that would take place today. Within hours, the police had cordoned off three streets where residents were suspected to be involved in the bombings. They made 24 total arrests, but released one detainee on a lack of evidence or some other crap. Anyway, the U.S. embassy was asked to approve the passenger list of every flight flying to the U.S. from Europe. Needless to say they were... stingy with approvals. Every flight to the U.S. was cancelled on the tenth because the embassy wanted to be cautious. The next day, certain high profile airports were given priority to be approved and about 50 flights to the U.S. left that day. All of them were to JFK or O'Hare. I was flying to Boston. My flight was cancelled twice. Within 14 hours of each other, my flights were cancelled. I was stuck in London for five days. At least I got to get home though. One passenger to JFK left their cell phone on. An hour into the flight it rang. They were either arrested or prevented from flying. On the flight the day before mine left, a passenger heading to Boston
wasn't approved.
At least I got home. The strange bit about it is that it probably cost the U.K. and the airlines involved more money to deal with the crap they are currently going to than to compensate families and replace the exploded planes. But I can say one thing. I have never seen better security at an airport, than what I saw three times at LHR while trying to check in. The sob story part will come at a later day, but to say the least, I was deeply impressed. I can only hope we see a fraction of this at Logan.
Anyway. A couple of interesting facts have been in papers and magazines. The people who clean the airplanes and who have
direct access to the chemicals that would have been used to make the bombs have
less security to get through than passengers. Cell phones are allowed on flights, yet electronic keys are not. Want to know why? The frequency that electronic key remotes operate at is a frequency that can be used to detonate a bomb made from household chemicals that any house would have. These are the same bombs used in the Madrid and London train bombings. Same with flash cameras. So yeah. Anything else you want to know? Email me at riders994@gmail.com or IM me at godlessdesi. It would be nice to know that
someone actually reads this.
