Overtime? Get real.
American Airlines mechanic ‘sabotaged a Florida plane with 150 passengers on board by stopping the automatic piloting system so that he could get overtime’
- Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani is accused of sabotaging a plane in Florida
- He allegedly glued foam inside a tube to stop the aircraft’s navigation system
- This would have forced the pilot to fly manually with data from the plane
- An alert was triggered as the pilot started engines and the sabotage discovered
- Alani allegedly did it to get overtime after stalled contract negotiations
- He will appear before Miami Federal Court on Friday
By Josh Saunders For Dailymail.comT, 6 September 2019
An American Airlines mechanic has been accused of sabotaging a plane with 150 passengers aboard after allegedly being upset over stalled contract negotiations.
Story continues below advertisementAbdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani is claimed to have glued foam inside a tube that would disable navigation systems in an aircraft at Miami International Airport, in Florida.
The veteran employee allegedly tampered with the plane to cause a delay or have the flight cancelled ‘in anticipation of obtaining overtime,’ Miami Herald reported.
Luckily no passengers were injured on the flight set for Nassau, Bahamas, on July 17, because an alert was triggered as the pilot powered up the plane’s engines.
Alani was arrested and is due to appear at Miami Federal court on Friday charged with ‘willfully damaging, destroying or disabling an aircraft.’
An American Airlines plane was allegedly sabotaged by a veteran employed who was bitter about contract negotiations stalling and wanted overtime
The damage was noticed as the pilot fired the plane’s engines before taking off to Nassau, the Bahamas from Miami International Airport (above)
The criminal complaint was launched after TSA federal air marshals claim to have identified Alani, while reviewing video footage.
During the alleged seven-minute sabotage, the defendant is believed to have deliberately caused an obstruction with a hard foam material, the Herald wrote.
Three other AA mechanics, who were with him during the claimed attack, allegedly helped investigators to identify Alani, who walks with a limp.
If an alarm wasn’t sounded on flight No. 2834 the pilot would have been forced to fly the plane manually.
The air data module that was affected reports aircraft speed, pitch and other critical flight data, according to the affidavit.
It’s claimed that Alani was upset over difficulties during contract negotiations in a ‘bloody’ battle between AA and the 12,000 employee mechanics’ union.
The spat led to legal fights at the company’s headquarters in Texas, this summer.
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Muslim history of murders:
Brutal 13th-Century death pit from Russian ‘city drowned in blood’ contains the remains of victim infidels murdered by
Muslims 800 years ago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7434609/Brutal-13th-Century-death-pit-city-drowned-blood-found.html
It’s already too late: America illegally-elected the biracial Muslim to the the presidency not just once but twice. And he inflicted irreparable damage to the Republic. Just how extensively we’ll never know. But the damage is done and there is no one who can reverse it.
And since America has openly rebelled against God, He is not interested. We remain under His judgment-as we haven’t yet repented and won’t.
What is any muzzie doing in the US let alone working on a plane!!!!?
amen. like having japs and nazis service our planes in WW2. we are beyond stupid
Or having sex offenders teach our children in schools. We have that exact equivalent today. All in the name of “tolerance” and “inclusion.” And children’s inner “stranger danger” detection systems are systematically being disarmed, disabled, dismantled and rendered useless as a result, with the chances of child abductions going way up exponentially. After all, if they run away from a stranger approaching them, that is now seen as evidence of “bigotry” and “prejudice.”
OR those FOOLS who Dress Up who are TRANNY’s that go into public libraries to read books to young children…
A Long Way beyond stupid !
Or who is responsible for allowing this scourge upon the earth to be in the USA in the first place ?
i saw the USA Today headline about this being a “union” matter, instantly knew that to be a lie, and searched for the name of this guy knowing it would be some muslim name, and sure enough, it was. So our government is going to sacrifice some more or our lives on american soil to accommodate the enemy that lives amongst us in broad daylight. Historians in the future will marvel at the strength of americans in 1941 and the stupidity of their children and grandchildren, and will struggle to explain it. I can’t explain it.
Muslims aren’t the only ones to which Western elites are sacrificing our women, children and grandchildren. There are others.
But Islam seems the least compatible, and the worst fit, with the west’s culture.
The likes of Jeffrey Epstein, for instance.
Epstien was never a hero in the Jewish community. Celebrated nowhere. Besides he is dead. No doubt, this mechanic is hearlded in the moslem world. On the radio they reported on the incident, just not his name. We will see about his politics, but no thanks to the Islamic apologists.
Perhaps true – I have no knowledge of his association with the Jewish community in general – or even if he attended a synagogue, however …. there is this matter of him and Alan Dershowitz, and there is hardly a soul alive in the Jewish community who does not know of Dershowitz … several weeks ago when the Epstein matter was getting hot, Laura Ingraham, on her Fox program, challenged Dershowitz and received no crisp answers about his association with Epstein from the self-proclaimed legal authority. Dershowitz had previously declared he would go after anyone (including the underage victims) who would challenge Epstein before the law. This association is being covered-up as fast as the Epstein-sympathetic MSM can make it.
The historians won’t have the time to mope about these last two generations. They will be serving Allah or some other false god to survive. Then, be eternally condemned.
The generation alive in 1941 had voted for Roosevelt since 1932. While he snowed them under with socialistic platitudes they went through a protracted depression and high unemployment, which didn’t end until the internationalists moved us toward what eventually became WW II.
“We are at war and I am a soldier” – London 7/7 jihad murderer
“I am a soldier and this is war” – killer of Lee Rigby addressing the jury.
“Britain has always been Dar al Harb [Realm of War]” – Anjem Choudary
It’s very simple: Romans Chapter 1 reveals ‘And God gave them over to a reprobate/depraved mind.’ So stupidity progresses until it leads to our ultimate destruction.
I don’t think it’s stupidity so much as cupidity. Face it, the USA has been bought off lock, stock and barrel by islamic petrodollars.
Ban the MUSLIM SWINE NOW.
Airlines and other industries serving the public refuse to grasp that Islam, Muslim employees are an ongoing threat to them and its customers. The embedment of Muslims in many public sectors in which the public deems their safety, security is a priority. Indeed not, Muslims have permeated sensitive security jobs throughout gullible or oblivious Western enterprises.
It is only a matter of time that innocents shall, once again, fall victim to a Jihad plot because of political correctness and the mindless appeasing of Muslims.
As you know, Ziggy, they were welcomed in with open arms to satisfy the political appetites of the Far Left and internationalists. Although not the beginning of such things, it took a big turn in this direction in the wake of the oil embargo in 1974.
Indeed, Mark, and we are paying for it in more ways than one.
Ever notice how a seriously high percentage of Somalian’s work at Airports?
Political correctness strikes again. When are we going to learn? Don’t forget they promoted Nidal Hassan even though they knew he could be dangerous. Eventually he destroyed 14 lives.
Muslims have been consistent in their aim to kill as many of us as they can and we still refuse to admit that they are a threat, until the next terrorist attack, then the next.
We should be erring on the side of caution by deporting Muslims, rather than to continue to give them the benefit of the doubt and risk the safety of our fellow non-Muslims.
Ultimately it really boils down to NIMBY, so long as ‘important people’ are not harmed by Muslims they don’t care and by that I mean people with the power to make a change. As long as it’s someone else or their kids being raped/killed by Muslims, then it’s just another sad tragedy to them that they think will not affect them.
What also surprises me is the lack of any significant backlash. Muslims are lucky we infidels are so tolerant, otherwise they’d reap what they sowed.
“…we infidels are so tolerant…” Is that really the problem?
Tolerance? I suggest it’s more accurately ‘ignorance’ and ‘stupidity.’
Today, roughly 1.1% of the US population is Muslim. As this percentage increases, so will the problem. Every Western nation with a Muslim population of 5% or more is experiencing exponential increases in crime including violence against woman.
At least once a week in America, there’s a news story about an a foiled Muslim terror plot on our soil. Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani is not an aberration, he reflects a pattern. In Israel, there are multiple foiled terror attacks daily. It’s been going on for years and most of the cases are ignored by the Leftist MSM. Think of Israel as the canary in the coal mine of Islamo-nazi terror.
Typical union employee…..
I always wonder if the German pilot who flew his planeload of passengers into the side of a mountain was a convert to the religion of pi$$.
ABC News tonight reported this incident as committed by Alani. Is he Italian? A Spaniard? They failed to report his full “Muhammad” name and failed to mention he was Muslim.
I doubt his intent was merely his cover story.
ABC News, like the rest, manipulate the news instead of reporting the news.
Where i live this is normal behaviour Moslems MENA change spelling of name and or make it sound Greek Italian south American?! Very strange race. Or hated race. And get family or friends to continue charade
I think I just lost any confidence in American Airlines for its innane hiring practices. This Iraqi Muslim dude sued Alaska Airline for discrimination based on national origin, but the case was thrown out for lack of evidence. https://www.apnews.com/6f03105ca6ff4a36bb728626802565eb
And yes, his story of just wanting more time off is a cover for more Islamic intent.
Endangering the lives of passengers including maybe some Muslims for his pay dispute. Not a very intelligent approach as he will be sacked and never work again after his incarceration. Seems about right!
Hang the ba$**rd!
I have said so many times that you cannot trust a person who considers a mass murdering, slave tradfing, rapist, paedophile war lord, as the most perfect person who has ever walked this earth.
Lets get back to a moral code of acceptance and expel back to the hell holes those who have no moral standing or idea between good and evil. If they do not come to our countries to adopt and learn our way of life then they are not wanted.
Thank you, Ms. Geller. The only stories I had seen made no reference to the perp, which naturally made me suspect a follower of the “religion of peace”. Which begs the obvious question….Why, WHY since 9/11, are ANY mozzlems allowed to work at ANY airport, let alone, have anything to do with actually working on anything to do with planes ???
Most Muslims who would do us harm are, now, ‘flying under the radar’ and cannot be so easily detected. Barry and Hillary made certain of that!
Why would any airline hire a muslim?? are they mad??
The next time I fly I’m going to insist on knowing the names of the pilots B4 I board, it they won’t provide such information then bam, it’ll be on to the next airline.
100% agreed. Muslim migrants immigrants fake asylum seekers loyal to pedo Mohammental and are 2 faced. They pretend to assimilate but do opposite. Oh and they pretend to be south Asian (imho and experience).
Most Muslims who would do us harm are, now, ‘flying under the radar’ and cannot be so easily detected. Barry and Hillary made certain of that!
And, indeed, they are ‘mad.’ Romans Chapter 1 reveals that fact.
We all fully understand the motives and aim of islam so there should be no surprise that one of these mugs are trying to do this act of sabotage. The only real surprise should be that they hired him in the first place but then that all comes down to political correctness and the insane rules our society has put in place for us.
This is war.
And Muhammed, himself, said ‘War is deceit.’
Anybody that’d believe this muzzie sabotaging a commercial airliner to get more overtime pay would have to be stupid on steroids to believe that lie. That’d be like a muslim saying that when pigs die they’ll go to heaven. Now I’m beginning to question how many “mechanically altered” plane crashes that are actually connected to muslims/Islamic terrorists and covered-up by the FAA and FBI, after all, it’s a proven fact over the last forty years and or longer, that every federal government department/agency has been and still is corrupt to the core.
I often come to Jeller Report to get the a more complete understanding of a news story.
Aaahh, of course. The reason the name of the saboteur was left out of the fake news reports, including Faux News(aka Fox News). The real reason is jihad by the savages, not the fake story of a disgruntled union worker. Thanks to Pamela for getting the truth out to us.
“…was bitter about contract negotiations stalling and wanted overtime.”
And the clueless airline and law enforcement authorities are dumb and stupid enough to buy that! That’s, precisely, how America falls.
This incident was, simply, still another failed, but attempted, Islamic terrorist attack.
religion of peace – anyone surprised?
Rrrrrright…contract disputes. Uh huh.
Any human being with an IQ Level above minus 382 who believes that this muzzie sabotaged a plane to get overtime needs to get psychiatric help. The plane would have taken off, possibly ending up in the loss of those 155 lives. How in the hell does any sane person think that this would provide overtime. That taq’ya piece of crap deserves the death penalty.
A muslim did this because of overtime, come on no one is stupid enough to believe this except perhaps Democrats.
Now the passengers need to file premeditated attempted murder charges. That should put this guy away for a while.
Then CAIR or Hamas can take care of his family or better yet deport them.
The religion of Pieces at work again…when will America wake up?
“Fly it manually”? This sounds like the sensor tube fault that put an Eastern Airlines plane into the Patomac River. Good on the pilot for catching it in time.