US Airways Philadelphia alert sparked by Jewish prayer
everynametaken Send a noteboard - 21/01/2010 08:58:52 PM
A US Airways flight was diverted to Philadelphia after a Jewish man's prayer items triggered a bomb scare, Philadelphia police said.
Passengers grew alarmed when the man used a phylactery - a small black box Orthodox Jews strap to their head as part of their rituals, police said.
The man was not arrested and the plane landed without incident.
US airports are on high alert after a Nigerian man was held over an alleged bomb plot on a plane last month.
His device allegedly malfunctioned and he was quickly overpowered by passengers and crew on the flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.
The latest incident took place on a 50-seat regional jet originally bound for Louisville, Kentucky from New York's LaGuardia airport. It landed in Philadelphia at about 0900 local time (1400 GMT).
Phylacteries - called tefillin in Hebrew - are two small boxes, usually made of black leather, with straps attached to them.
Observant Jewish men are required to place one box on their head and tie the other one on their arm as part of their morning prayers.
Seriously? Could you do your morning prayers before the flight and not on the middle of it? The plane is not the place for your morning prayers and no, I don't care how devout you (the passenger) are!
There is a simple way to stop all the shenanigans happening on flights. This man should be charged for all the extra fuel and employee wages that the diversion caused. If they start charging people and billing them thousands of dollars for their disturbances (and stupidity) then people will begin to think twice before acting a fool or inappropriately.
Passengers grew alarmed when the man used a phylactery - a small black box Orthodox Jews strap to their head as part of their rituals, police said.
The man was not arrested and the plane landed without incident.
US airports are on high alert after a Nigerian man was held over an alleged bomb plot on a plane last month.
His device allegedly malfunctioned and he was quickly overpowered by passengers and crew on the flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.
The latest incident took place on a 50-seat regional jet originally bound for Louisville, Kentucky from New York's LaGuardia airport. It landed in Philadelphia at about 0900 local time (1400 GMT).
Phylacteries - called tefillin in Hebrew - are two small boxes, usually made of black leather, with straps attached to them.
Observant Jewish men are required to place one box on their head and tie the other one on their arm as part of their morning prayers.
Seriously? Could you do your morning prayers before the flight and not on the middle of it? The plane is not the place for your morning prayers and no, I don't care how devout you (the passenger) are!
There is a simple way to stop all the shenanigans happening on flights. This man should be charged for all the extra fuel and employee wages that the diversion caused. If they start charging people and billing them thousands of dollars for their disturbances (and stupidity) then people will begin to think twice before acting a fool or inappropriately.
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
US Airways Philadelphia alert sparked by Jewish prayer
- 21/01/2010 08:58:52 PM
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Sorry, your comments are dumb.
- 21/01/2010 09:57:02 PM
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- 22/01/2010 02:11:43 AM
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- 22/01/2010 02:11:43 AM
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Sorry, I don't consider praying on a plane acting foolishly or inappropriately.
- 21/01/2010 10:28:58 PM
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His being Jewish has nothing to do with it. Use some common sense - pray silently.
- 22/01/2010 12:32:40 AM
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or they could have looked and said "no problem just a wooden box used for prayer" and not diverted
- 21/01/2010 10:33:58 PM
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Fair enough, I can agree that they could have done that and should have done that.
- 22/01/2010 12:34:08 AM
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I feel guilty praying on planes because of attitudes like that
- 22/01/2010 12:24:04 AM
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Re: I feel guilty praying on planes because of attitudes like that
- 22/01/2010 12:37:21 AM
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People have every right to be suspicios without cause about what I SAY on a plane.
- 22/01/2010 01:57:24 AM
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and about the timing of the prayer...
- 22/01/2010 04:26:17 AM
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Allah is bigger than your "prayer time". The world won't end if you pray earlier or later.
- 22/01/2010 05:36:45 AM
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Re: Allah is bigger than your "prayer time". The world won't end if you pray earlier or later.
- 22/01/2010 05:46:44 PM
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Islam does explicitly make allowances for people who are traveling, though.
- 22/01/2010 01:14:17 PM
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You are just outright wrong.
- 22/01/2010 01:40:41 PM
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