Monday, August 14, 2006
REVERSE CALL
British Airways is now offering flights direct from London to London:
A British Airways flight from London to New York turned around mid-flight and returned to London’s Heathrow airport after a mobile phone started ringing, the airline said.
“Flight BA179 has returned to Heathrow as a precautionary measure,” a spokeswoman for BA told AFP.
“A mobile phone was located on board the aircraft which none of the passengers appear to own.”
Get used to it. We’re in for a lot more of this, as Mark Steyn warns:
If you had told an Englishman on Sept. 10, 2001, that within five years all hand luggage would be banned on flights from Britain, he’d have thought you were a kook. If you’d told an Englishwoman that all liquids would be banned except milk for newborn babies that could only be taken on board if the adult accompanying the child drinks from the bottle in front of a security guard, she’d have scoffed and said no one would ever put up with such a ludicrous imposition. But now it’s here. What other changes will the Islamists have wrought in another five years?
Absent a determination to throttle the ideology, we’re about to witness the unraveling of the world.
On related matters, please read Paul Sheehan and Stephen Morris. Especially Stephen Morris.
UPDATE. Read this, too, by Mary Ann Sieghart.