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Friday, December 02, 2005
Scary, But Not Completely Unexpected
Pilot Reports 'Missile' Fired at Jetliner Near LAX (11/28/05)
FBI agents and Homeland Security officials spent the weekend investigating the report of a possible missile fired at an American Airlines plane taking off from Los Angeles International Airport.Sources tell ABC News the pilot of American Airlines Flight 621, en route to Chicago, radioed air traffic controllers after takeoff from LAX. He told them a missile had been fired at the aircraft and missed.
The plane was over water when the pilot said he saw a smoke trail pass by the cockpit.
FBI agents believe it was a flare or a bottle rocket, but say they may never know if that's what it actually was.
Why have we not heard about this? A bottle rocket? Out over the ocean? I know they're trying to keep the public from freaking out, but seriously. A bottle rocket can't go that high. Or a flare? I'm pretty sure that the pilot knows what one of those looks like. He would have said, "I think someone fired a flare at us," not "someone just shot a #*$@&# missile at us!!!"
We live in a new world. A very scary new world.
