Hostess lets passenger use scissors on flight
Saturday 11th June 2011, 2:29PM BST.
A FORMER police officer has accused Flybe of putting passengers in danger after cabin crew allowed a woman to use scissors during a flight.
But the airline said no passengers had been put at risk and backed the stewardess’s decision not to confiscate the item.
‘Flybe’s crew is trained to assess and take immediate action to prevent anything that might be deemed to compromise in any way the safety and security of its passengers,’ it said.
‘Having spoken to the passenger in possession of the small pair of round-tipped, plastic-covered scissors, she assessed that there was absolutely no risk, potential threat or danger to other passengers.’
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thankfully the woman is an ex-cop otherwise people would have been arrested for having shoelaces undone!
Plastic round ended scissors pose no threat to anyone and are also especially useless at cutting thin A4 paper as well.
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Air cabin crew with more comon sense than a ex copper. Not surprising really, the whole ‘war on terror’ is a fantasy created to facilitate the growth and implimentation of a totalitarian police state.. WAKE UP the N W O is here.
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Oh, what a wonderful world we live in when rubbish such as this makes the news, someone carries a pair of scissors onto a plane and automatically you are a terrorist!!!
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If they’d been let through security what’s the problem?! Knitting needles are much more dangerous but are allowed on board, get a life!
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Perhaps its a good job he left the police if he’s terrified of a ‘small pair of round-tipped, plastic-covered scissors’. I take it he got to his destination in one piece then – not skyjacked over Sark and flown into custard castle? Why not leave it to the already over zealous cabin crews and security people at Guernsey airport instead of adding to the paranoia? If nursery scissors are sooo scary imagine what a maniac could do with hot cuppa soup or two figers of Kit Kat.
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Have any of you seen naked gun two and a half? thought not. This ex police officer was right.
After all if Frank Drebin could harm someone by throwing a towel in your face then only God knows what you could do with a pair of scissors :)
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Ex Coppers are just that, ‘ex’; So why on earth did this individual think that they had a right to behave like one?
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I don’t know who is madder, the ex-police officer or the Press for actually giving it space.
What worries me most is that there are people who have bought into this whole sh*t that every other person is trying to bring down an airliner. When did people stop being able to rationalise for themselves.
It is like people who say they don’t mind queueing for an hour in security ‘because it is better to be safe than sorry’. You are at far more risk driving to the airport but I don’t see anyone flogging their car and staying at home.
If someone wants to get something on a plane, all the fancy microwave scanners and stuff are not going to stop them anyway. So stop worrying.
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And yet most police officers still wonder why everyone hates them, has no – & shows no – respect to them.
This person no doubt dons a fluorescent yellow jacket & a hard-hat & works in ‘health & safety’ for the States & spends his life going around bothering innocent people for no reason.
GET A LIFE YOU JOBSWORTH…..
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….third party scicssor rage is the scourge of the airlines I am told.
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If any of you had read the story correctly, you will see that the woman say’s ‘at no time did the hostess ask to see or take the scissors’. Obviously Flybe have said they were the smallest and safest pair of scissors because they are embrassed about the whole incident. The scissors mentioned, were not the scissors that the womans saw on the plane.
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There was a time when you could have taken garden shears or for that matter an elephant gun on board. If people really want to get paranoid, how about somebody going crazy with a couple of broken duty free bottles? Planes have armoured doors to the cockpit and the security people at Guernsey airport are fanatics – they have certainly stolen enough stuff from us. Enough already!
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The thing that struck me in this story was that the woman was cutting her fingernails and hair for a full 15 minutes on public transport. Yuk! I’m glad I wasn’t sitting next to her or the unlucky passenger to have her seat after her.
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This lady should be glad she wasn’t flying in United States airspace. I imagine she would have received a slightly stronger reaction than an over-zealous ex-police officer telling tales to the local press.
Still, thankfully common sense prevailed here.
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Ex-Police…says it all really.
Surprised the 2 new armoured cars wernt waiting on the runway!
@Humankind….stop worrying about it and get on with something important, like not forgetting to take the Donuts to work at the Policestation tommorow.
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@WATM – I’m not anything to do with law enforcement and just to set your little record straight, I don’t hate Police Officers, I do have and show them respect, I happen to think they do a great job in society.
Maybe you hate them because you have been on the wrong side of the law a couple of times?
Maybe this person is an ex-Police Officer for a reason…
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I’m with Rosie on this one what a revolting thought, someone cutting their hair & nails next to you on the flight, I hate flying but now I am over 50 and not particularly worried what people think about me, I would have had to tell her to stop. Then perhaps the scissors may have gone somewhere they should not have.
I would have thought the steward could have asked her to stop. End of.
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When we went to visit our daughter last Christmas,a small plastic tub marked “Double Guernsey Cream”, was confiscated. Just think how much damage we could of caused had we been able to sneak that onboard !
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People who think that the scissors should not have been on the aircraft have lost all sense of proportion and ability to make their own risk assessment.
Google Stanley Milgram Obedience to authority.
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As an ex-police officer may I apologise on behalf of the vast majority of serving and retired officers.
I can only presume the former officer in this story had little operational experience and probably policed their Station or Division from the safety of a very large desk. Excuse me while I cringe with embarrassment.
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You know; it all seems so stupid, so deliciously insane—however.
I for one think the ex man should be praised, not beaten!
‘If everyone followed what is asked of them there would be thousand of stories that the ‘Press’ alone couldn’t cope.
And that all persons are asked. in huge lettering “BE VIGILANT”
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Anyone who successfully hi-jacks an aircraft with a pair of scissors clearly deserves it.
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As a Guern living and working Down Under I take great pleasure in looking at the local Guernsey news and articles to see what is happening. I must say that it makes you appreciate what a great place Guernsey really is to live when this kind of stuff is news worthy!!
Although a great place to live (in general) the daily news in sunny Queensland mostly involves the numerous armed robberies that are occurring. Only in recent weeks one poor brave Police Officer was shot at point blank range in the face with a shotgun whilst trying to apprehend the aforementioned criminals at a local drinking hole. My thoughts and prayers go out to his wife, infant son and newborn baby.
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Far Flung Guern, perhaps you should tune in to the local radio too or you might miss out on other hot news items. The police were on the other day reporting that two children had fallen off their bikes due to rain!! Not hurt of course, that would have made front page news.
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Beanjar….. damn I missed out – I am a Paramedic and as such that could have been a career worthy case….. all those bandaids and smiley face stickers….. nevermind hope something as crazy happens this side of the globe – I may just get a medal or something!!
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What’s the big problem? Most International airlines are back to giving passengers steel cutlery to use.
“You can’t take that water onboard sir but we’ll give you a nice steel knife once you’re airborne!”
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phuketrex – actually, their thinking is quite logical.
These days, if a knife weilding mad man took over the cabin, they would not get into the cockpit and so would only be able to threaten a few passnegers before they were over powered.
If the water in a drinks bottle is not water but is liquid explosive, then someone could blow up the whole plane.
But you are right in the sense that whether the scissors are plastic coated and round tipped is irrelevant, as even normal scissors pose no real risk over an above other potential weapons that someone could use. A biro in the right (wrong?) hands is lethal.
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If a hijacker was to take over my flight then I’d fancy my chances of taking him on more with a sharp piece of cutlery than a plastic fork!
And when sitting immediately behind the pilot on a trilander I could take out the pilot by strangling him with my bare hands or with a belt, or knock him out with my shoe. How ridiculous is that? And bearing in mind we aren’t very far from Cap de la Hague or Flamanville that’s pretty worrying indeed….
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