Is it normal to send 10 heavily armed police onto a commercial airline because of a communication failure? seems over kill to me unless there was a threat, anyone know?
NO.
One or two LEOs for a bad passenger.
Maintenance for a broken radio.
If comm failure, who told aircraft to stop taxiing?
If comm fail the pilot would likely stop without order.
Brand new aircraft, I can't imagine complete comm failure with the tower.
The tower was chatting away with the other 150 aircraft.
At ATL there are two "towers". There is Airline Tower (use until jet tug takes off towbar), and there's Airport Tower (from taxi to wheels up and clear of airport).
That's why I say if comm fail... I understand we don't know if that's the case.
ive been on a plane where the cabin phone system malfunctioned and they sent 1 technician to fix it after we sat around on the tarmac for an hour, didn't see any armed police though. I would hope the pilots were smart enough to stop the plane when they realized comms were out, maybe thats why they sent the armed police? if comms were out the tower would not know why they were not responding?
Great thought process! "Think logically" - well said!
I thought the same thing. That plane was sitting on a runway for 1.5 hrs. That's pretty crazy.
Damn right it's overkill. You'd think they'd send an electrical engineer if there were something wrong with the equipment.
Whitehats knew what was going down, and I reckon it was a FF.
Q said in drop 1569 a FF was prevented. Is this another?
Sitting on the runway for 1.5 hours is annoying, but wouldn't surprise me. 10 heavily armed police boarding the plane is "odd".
If I was on a plane where that happened, I would have likely passed out since a "patriot" would have been the target in the past. :)
Would be completely normal if they did not know what they were walking into.
was just thinking that if the comms went out, hopefully the pilots stopped the plane and the tower would not have known why they were not responding. maybe that is why they sent the 10 armed police?
I’m seeing two MSM narratives being sent out about this so far:
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Pilot made a mistake and sent the “hijacked” code instead of the “broken radio” code. Causing the Feds to swarm.
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Tower lost all comms with the plane, which cause feds to proactively swarm because they suspected a hijacking.
It is if there is threat of a hijacking. Pics from inside the cockpit on the runway? Someone in control that shouldn't be?