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September 23, 2004

Aero-News Quote Of The Day (09.23.04)

"Whenever there's anything that anybody asks a question about, no one wants to take any chances." Source: Midwest spokeswoman Carol Skornicka, defending her airline after someone on a flight from Milwaukee to San Francisco Sunday night noticed what looked like Arabic handwriting on a page inside the in-flight magazine. The passenger told the cabin crew, the cabin crew told the flight crew and the flight crew decided it would be better to be safe than sorry. The aircraft returned to the gate and the passengers were offloaded into hotels for the night. In the end, Skornicka said the writing was actually Farsi and was something like a prayer, "something of a contemplative nature."

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