Pilots who overshot Twin Cities lose licenses

Daniel Brown - a United States Marine returning from Iraq, was prevented from boarding a flight home in April 2006 because his name matched one on the No Fly List. The rest of his company refused to leave the airport until Brown was allowed to board.
Asif Iqbal - a management consultant and legal resident of the United States born in Pakistan, plans to sue the US government because he is regularly detained when he tries to fly, because he has the same name as a former Guantanamo detainee. Iqbal's work requires a lot of travel, and, even though the Guantanamo detainee has been released, his name remains on the no-fly list, and Iqbal the software consultant experiences frequent, unpredictable delays and missed flights. He is pushing for a photo ID and birth date matching system, in addition to the current system of checking names.
Robert Johnson - a surgeon and a former lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, was told in 2006 he was on the list, although he had had no problem in flying the month before. Johnson was running as a Democrat against U.S. Representative John McHugh, a Republican. Johnson wondered whether he was on the list because of his opposition to the Iraq War. He stated, "This could just be a government screw-up, but I don't know, and they won't tell me." Later, a 60 Minutes report brought together 12 men named Robert Johnson, all of whom had experienced problems in airports with being pulled aside and interrogated. The report suggested that the individual whose name was intended to be on the list was most likely the Robert Johnson who had been convicted of plotting to bomb a movie theater and a Hindu temple in Toronto.
Ted Kennedy - a U.S. Senator (D-MA) told a Senate Judiciary Committee discussing the No Fly List that he had appeared on the list and had been repeatedly delayed at airports. He said it had taken him three weeks of appeals directly to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to have him removed from the list. Kennedy said he was eventually told that the name "T Kennedy" was added to the list because it was once used as an alias of a suspected terrorist. There are an estimated 7,000 American men whose legal names correspond to "T Kennedy."
John Lewis - an United States Representative (D-GA), widely known for his civil rights advocacy, has been stopped many times.
Patrick Martin - a Canadian journalist has been frequently interrogated while travelling, because of another suspicious individual with the same name.
James Moore - an Emmy-winning television news correspondent, co-author of Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove - a political activist, and outspoken critic of the Bush Administration, was placed on the No Fly List.

Recordo wrote:

<quoted text> Get over it. Take the train.

I did take the train. But I slept through the MSP stop and didn't wake up until Bismarck. Then I had to walk all the way back and it was snowing. I'm flying next time, so I can have pilots to blame for my inconvenience.

Dear Mr. Fetcher - The depth of your analysis and argument is "I think we all found you terribly ignorant when you began to type. By the time your post was complete you confirmed to everyone what true ignorance you exhibit. Whew." You union thugs are all alike. All bluster and no facts. Come back, when you have refutation. You just over-flew your destination! I hope you can delay long enough for the cockpit recorder to loop over the sounds from your cockpit.

rube2 wrote:

they were probably on Monster. com looking for mew jobs. their wages and bene's have been rolled back since deregulation by Reagan back in the 80's. Delta= don't ever leave the airport. the airline mgmt would have you living in a box at the end of the runway as long as you showed up in a clean shirt. Another once great US industry ruined by short sighted greedy incompetant mgmt and corrupt politicians

Well, let's see, it has taken deregulation about 25 years to cause two dumba@@es to go to sleep or whatever and fly by the airport by 150 miles. What a statement!

Let's see, Regean was terribly corrupt! So, that made management terrible!

No logic whatsoever! The work ethic of Americans has gone to @ell!

I agree, there was a day and time for Unions! Look what they done to the Auto industry! Said enough? No, what job has a Union created? Said enough?

They are idiots.. they friggen deserve it.