Airline test run??

[Cat]

How does the Aviation industry test a potentially serious quarantine situation???

 

 

How easy would it be to get someone to pretend to be drunk and claim to have a seriously contageous disease? Wouldn't most people, even angry detained ones, tend to pass it off as the stupid ravings of a drunk?

 

Maybe like this:

 

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Flight Quarantined Over Pox Threat

The Associated Press

Updated: 7:38 p.m. ET March 23, 2007

 

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Authorities quarantined an arriving US Airways flight Friday at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport after a passenger claimed he had smallpox, an airline spokesman said.

 

Health officials quarantined the Airbus A319 carrying 112 passengers and four crew members coming in from New Orleans, US Airways spokesman Morgan Durrant said.

 

Durrant said he could not confirm a TV report that the passenger was intoxicated.

 

Scott White, a spokesman at Carolinas Medical Center, where the passenger was taken for tests, said the man does not have the disease, which was eradicated in 1980.

 

"There's no evidence of smallpox," said Rick Christenbury, spokesman for Mecklenburg County Health Department.

 

Airport spokeswoman Haley Gentry said there was a "medical situation" in progress, but referred questions to the health department.

 

Police confirmed the plane had been quarantined but did not release more information.

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17762931/

 

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What do you think??

 

 

 

[Jewlzm]

I think it confirms some questions about whether or not anyone would tell the truth in such a situation to keep from mass panic.

 

*holding my tongue to keep from offending anyone* This just ticks me off.