Tom J
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Dont know if this has been posted but saw this on another forum
Mutiny as passengers refuse to fly until Asians are removed
Passengers refuse to allow holiday jet to take off until two Asian men are thrown off plane
British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny - refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed.
The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic.
Passengers told cabin crew they feared for their safety and demanded police action. Some stormed off the Monarch Airlines Airbus A320 minutes before it was due to leave the Costa del Sol at 3am. Others waiting for Flight ZB 613 in the departure lounge refused to board it.
The incident fuels the row over airport security following the arrest of more than 20 people allegedly planning the suicide-bombing of transatlantic jets from the UK to America. It comes amid growing demands for passenger-profiling and selective security checks.
It also raised fears that more travellers will take the law into their own hands - effectively conducting their own 'passenger profile
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marklaruk
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your like so.... 5 hours ago...
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Tom J
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link to post?
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Marc
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I can imagine that being quite embarrasing for the two Asian men  Talk about being stereotyped!
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Tom J
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also saw this on the post on the other forum
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mav
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Quite bad, will continue to happen I reckon.
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marklaruk
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oh no sorry i mean i just saw it on news 5 hours ago... lol
they interviewed a couple that were on the plane and the woman said the guys kept looking at their watches and the floor... then started speaking in arabic n shit. before they boarded the plane they walked to the back of the queue.
and were wearing leather jackets over tops n shit when it was supposidly quite warm...
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JadeM
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Muslim only flights the way forward 
Bombair 
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marklaruk
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quote:
Originally posted by JadeM
Muslim only flights the way forward
Bombair
wow catchy!
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Shelly
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TBH I think this is the way it will go
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Jamie Walby
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I dont think terrorists would blow up a flight from Malaga to UK......then again, that might be what they want us to think
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SetH
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OMG, the british public are retards no really, i think too many of them have seen that united 93 film.
oh look 2 asian guys looking at their watches in leather coats, they must be islamic fundamentalists.
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Edd
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mass hysteria
but who knows how you would react unless you where faced with that predicament
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Ojc
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Sorry but I wouldn't risk it either, flying is awful at the best of times.
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SetH
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predicament? two asian guys looking at their watches and the floor. typically british to look at someone foreign and totally get their race/religion/nationality wrong!!
you are right though mass hysteria, or mass paranoia, probably insitgated by one person on the plane, rumours then spread like wildfire.
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Edd
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yes you may be the most sensible non racist person in the world but once you get a whiff of fear logic goes out the window
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Jamie Walby
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
Sorry but I wouldn't risk it either, flying is awful at the best of times.
I have always been interested in what it is about flying people dont like!?
is it the fact that you are 1000s feet above the ground? unatural feeling?
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Ojc
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Not in control, we have only been capable of powered flight for a little over 100 years and we are no means masters of it.
I think flying is still very primative and very dangerous.
A jumbo jet is a bus with wings and 4 rockets attached to it, as simple as that and as dangerous as that.
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Aaron
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
A jumbo jet is a bus with wings and 4 rockets attached to it, as simple as that and as dangerous as that.
a bit more sophisticated then that i think
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Jamie Walby
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
Not in control, we have only been capable of powered flight for a little over 100 years and we are no means masters of it.
I think flying is still very primative and very dangerous.
A jumbo jet is a bus with wings and 4 rockets attached to it, as simple as that and as dangerous as that.
I can understand that, but isnt flying statisticly the safest form of travelling?
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Dean_W
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I heard a statement once, goes like this: -
You are more likely to be killed by your trousers than in a plane crash.
But, most people survive plane crashes, it's the aftermath that kills people.
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Ojc
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That statistic is the most flawed one EVER.
You get on a plane once a year to go on your holidays, now the chances of something going wrong are ridiciulously low. Now you drive your car everyday, and more than once a day, its obvious you are more likely to crash in your car.
I blame the Americans.
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Dean_W
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
I blame the Americans.
Amen to that 
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Jamie Walby
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agreed!
I really enjoy flying though. We're off on hols next week and theres a few of my mates who hate flying.
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Ojc
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Before we flew out to Corfu I had a few drinks to send me to sleep, little did we know our plane got delayed 7 hours By the time it came to taking off I had sobered up.
Again, the Americans fault.
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