For anyone who is watching BBC news right now, you will have seen the breaking news about there has been a terror plot to bomb something like 9 planes over the sea! :o But the police were one step ahead and have thwarted the attack but it looks like the big airports in the country arent letting hardly any flights out today. This is absolutely terrible, if this had gone ahead and happened we would have been looking at a huge devastation, and i wonder if henmans rubbish guy's flights been delayed for yet another day :( I wouldnt want to fly at all today after hearing this though!!!

s**t.

I hope they catch them soon.

I'm flying to the US in 3 weeks :o

My auntie's coming from US on Sunday :o

:yikes: :yikes: and i think these attacks were something to do with the U.S aswell!! not sure if they were planning to target planes from the UK to the U.S or vice versa, but it said something about the U.S on the news and major airports in the country arent letting people fly i think, so maybe this was what henman is rubbish guy was talking about last night when he said about lots of sirens around london :(

Well, I think it's less likely for there to be an attack on a plane leaving the US...

AFP: At least 5 major US cities were targets in terror plot.

:yikes:

Heres to the link to the bbc statement

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4778575.stm



"It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled in hand luggage on to as many as 10 aircraft." :yikes:

Well, for those who are flying or have loved ones flying, it is probably really one of the safer times now, with so much extra security and attention being paid, in light of the current news. That doesn't help much with the anxiety factor that this kind of new brings, nor with the delays and disruptions it causes, though.

I'm certainly glad the plan was uncovered.

It is definitely encouraging to know that there's so much extra security in place these days...but it does seem though that these days with the changed nature of the threats that we face that the structures in place really need to change too to keep up. Juts look at airport security checks, the scanning devices in place are still more or less just high tech metal detectors that simply aren't going to detect the components (such as liquid as seems to have been the aim of these terrorits) of highly complex explosives designed to foil these very checks; morevoer, items which individually would not cause any alert, when combined could. The fact that the security checks tha are now necessary in the light of the recent information are causing hours and hours of delays sadly just shows that our current systems can't cope with this new age of threat.

It's not just an issue with airport security though - just look at the Israel - Hezbollah situation: an army of a regional superpower struggling to contain guerilla fighters. Israel's (and the US/UK in Iraq) military equipment, tactics and strucures, no matter how powerful they are, just don't work against this kind of threat.

So the world's a changed place I suppose...there's no doubt that the age we're living in at the moment is going to be a very interesting/significant one historically...just the sooner we get to grips with it the better.

My family and I are flying to Spain on Saturday out of Heathrow. We were going to try and go by train when we first heard the news but decided that was a bit over the top so are just going to turn up and hope for the best on Saturday. There are going to be very strict restrictions on hand luggage tho - I was going to take my tennis raquet as hand luggage as we had one broken in a hard shelled suitcase despite very careful packing once. Don't think I'll risk it now so no tennis :(

Thats it Nick in a nutshell. It will be very safe now for the forseeable future.
Why these people want to even live in the UK or US when they hate the west is beyond me. I have no qualms in saying all this mass imigration into the UK has been the worst thing ever. They like this country beacuse of all the benefits they get but they hate us. How rich.

how long before you get to the airport and have to go to a room to change into a special paper suit before you are allowed to travel. Your own clothes will be packed with your luggage...

you saw it here first

:blink:

actually, this is good news!!

No more work on aeroplanes

:yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

Was talking to some friends of a friend last night. They have to fly to the US tomorrow, and are having to do last minute planning as they can no longer take their violins on board with them.. Their violins are worth about £20-30,000 each and are pretty much irreplaceable for them (they are professional musicians, quite well known in indie/ alt. circles..), and their instruments would get smashed to pieces if they checked them in, even when in their cases..

In fact, one of them did say that before too long, when boarding flights, we would be wearing similar robes to what people wear when going into surgery..

:blink:

with the gaping hole and loose ties down the back?

Maybe the ties will be a little tighter than usual.. :blink:

;)

any pre-med?

roflmao

Maybe putting them all on a desert Island somewhere and let them blow themselves up would be a great idea.

Let them swim there first, no planes.

It was a bloody nightmare that day...couldn't believe it as I was flying out to Beijing that afternoon from Heathrow, woke up saw the news and just thought "you are having a laugh.."

Needless to say I didn't get out until the next day as I my flight was via Vienna so no European flights were going.. Grr!

Anyways, thankfully I got there in the end and so glad this plot was uncovered.

I can symathise with them I really can. This has made me think of Stephen Hendry - he used th esame cue sinc ehe was a child, and it had won him all those titles and Wordl Championships. He wasn't allowed to carry his cue ona flight and it went with the luggage. It was broken when he landed, and he said he was really affected by this havign had that cue fo rso long. It took him ages to find another one. i undersatnd it affecte dhsi form. i t wasnt; worth much at all, but when you think he had won I think 7 World Championships with it it must have been worth a hell fo a lot.