Tue, Apr 19, 2005
More Details On KLM Incident
As sources tell Time Magazine the US No-Fly list has ballooned
from 19,000 names in September to more than 31,000 this month,
we're learning more about why a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Mexico
City was forbidden to fly in US airspace earlier this month. At the
bottom line, the TSA is now trying to expand its ability to
keep people off commercial flights -- not just in the US, but all
over the world.
As ANN reported, the KLM flight was flying near
the US-Canadian border when it was denied permission to continue
flying through US airspace on April 8th. The
reason? Time reports two of the passengers on board were Saudi
citizens. The TSA said the two men had trained as pilots with 9/11
hijacker Hani Hanjour. The flight was turned back and eventually
landed in London. They were eventually allowed to fly from London
back to Saudi Arabia.
Dutch authorities
questioned the men and raised a stink over the fact that neither
was on any Dutch watch list. So, they wondered, just how did the US
find out they were on the flight and figure they might pose a
threat?
But the TSA's proposal to expand the watch list to international
airlines that don't make landfall in the US could start another
trans-Atlantic fight over aviation security. "This could open
up the U.S. to retaliation," one source told Time. That same source
warned that restricting overflight privileges "would be much more
of a burden for US airlines, which fly over many more countries
than foreign airlines passing through US airspace."
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