Hijacked Plane Said to Land in New Delhi.
October 3, 2001 1:35 PM   Subscribe

Hijacked Plane Said to Land in New Delhi. NYTimes article -- you know the deal. CNN and Salon both confirm.
posted by brand-gnu (34 comments total)
 
Sorry about the bad CNN link. The mention of the story is in a "breaking news" box at the top of the main page.
posted by brand-gnu at 1:39 PM on October 3, 2001


Well, as long as it's on the ground, it can't do much. And in this environment, I wouldn't be surprised if the authorities blew up the plane themselves to keep it from taking off again.
posted by aaron at 1:40 PM on October 3, 2001


(Just a nit: the NYT and Salon articles are both sourced from AP, so I wouldn't call that independent confirmation. But anyway, proceed with discussion...)
posted by girlhacker at 1:41 PM on October 3, 2001


Well MSNBC says it's there.
posted by Snotty at 1:47 PM on October 3, 2001


this happened yesterday. I don't remember anyone commenting on it and I didn't see it on the news. Even the Telegraph only had it half way down its homepage.
posted by Summer at 1:54 PM on October 3, 2001


You know, it's not necessary to post EVERY story that appears in the news on MeFi.
posted by briank at 1:57 PM on October 3, 2001


Yeak, briank, just another hijacking, and another bombing. No big deal.
posted by swift at 2:07 PM on October 3, 2001


Oh goodie, another WTC related link.
posted by signal at 2:10 PM on October 3, 2001


F*cks sake. 25 people dead and a plane hijacked, but it's only India so let's not worry.
posted by Summer at 2:16 PM on October 3, 2001


I went to the MetaFilter community first to check on this story.
posted by ericrolph at 2:30 PM on October 3, 2001


"Yeak, briank, just another hijacking, and another bombing. No big deal."

Metafilter is a discussion forum, not a news portal. Read the guidelines.
posted by y6y6y6 at 2:30 PM on October 3, 2001


Summer, where did you get the "25 people dead"? No site I have seen has said there have been any deaths yet.
posted by Razzle Bathbone at 2:33 PM on October 3, 2001


signal: How the heck is this a WTC related post?
As far as I can tell this has nothing to do with the WTC.

I am a newbie, so perhaps I don't understand things, but to me all the complaint posts are much worse than the occasional questionable link.

I realise that this is not a news portal, but I believe that this is of interest to many participants.
posted by phatboy at 2:34 PM on October 3, 2001


25 deaths in the bombing I linked to above.
posted by Summer at 2:36 PM on October 3, 2001


"I realise that this is not a news portal, but I believe that this is of interest to many participants."

In other words you realize this isn't what the site is for, but we should do it anyway. The post doesn't present anything that we couldn't get from any online news source.

Metafilter has a purpose. Please join us in making it better instead of worse.
posted by y6y6y6 at 2:53 PM on October 3, 2001


Metafilter is a discussion forum, not a news portal. Read the guidelines.

I think the news portal criticism (in MeTa) came about because people were posting to Breaking News!™ before it was confirmed or had a permalink.

There's a lot of discussion that can started by this: Was this a fundamentalist or a copycat? Can airways ever be safe (this did happen while India was on highest alert)? Why are Islamic militants attacking in India?

What do you guys think?
posted by jennak at 3:01 PM on October 3, 2001


Well I'm just amazed that a bomb went off in India, Bed Linen's thought to be behind it and yet no-one anywhere's talking about it. Not even the hijacking made the headlines on the ten o'clock news tonight, the bloody Labour Party conference did. If it's half way round the world no-one cares.

And another thing, there's a 'queen mum is dead' style rumour going round that something big (terrorist-related) is going to happen in London on Monday.
posted by Summer at 3:09 PM on October 3, 2001


It's a tough question...because I have been seeing this story on yahoo for a while, and even the barely [computer] literate guys I work with are talking about it, so it MUST be common knowledge.

Then again, the WTC disaster was even more widely reported, and the MeFi thread became a good source of news for some. The "it happened in India so it's not important!" snipe is a telling one, though I don't think anyone here meant it that way.

I think maybe you have to say "Not a news discussion site except for that one WTC thingy."

Hm. Metatalk I guess.
posted by Kafkaesque at 3:12 PM on October 3, 2001


"A good post to MetaFilter is something that meets the following criteria: most people haven't seen it before, there is something interesting about the content on the page, and it might warrant discussion from others." per the guidelines page.

i think that this was posted because the poster that that it was interesting and warranted a discussion.

i really like metafilter but people sometimes on here are a little too snooty about what they feel should and should not be on here, what they feel is interesting enough to talk about...it's sad really...you all were rookies of metafilter at one time...you all thought that people cared about you cared about, at one time.

and summer i think that there were not 25 people dead on this hijack but there were 40 that were killed from a car bomb on monday in india.
posted by m2bcubed at 3:13 PM on October 3, 2001


[Metafilter is a discussion forum]

There seems to be some confusion over that actually. According to Metafilter itself : "Metafilter is a weblog that anyone can contribute a link or a comment to...to foster discussion among its members"

So, it would seem, it's appropriate if it fosters a discussion.
posted by revbrian at 3:20 PM on October 3, 2001


So far the only discussion it has fostered is whether or not it's an appropriate link, which indicates it probably isn't discussion-worthy.

So, revbrian, or swift, or anyone else who cares to defend this as a good thread, how about one of you starting some meaningful discussion about this hijacking OR the bombing in Kashmir summer mentions. I'd love to hear about it.
posted by briank at 3:31 PM on October 3, 2001


I'd love to hear about it.

I somehow doubt that briank.

OK. Why IS India being targeted? Why haven't the passengers overwhelmed the hijackers as lots of people suggested they would next time a plane was hijacked. Seems like that theory is out of the window.
posted by Summer at 3:39 PM on October 3, 2001


I'm a newbie here, as far as posting. I've probably been posting more than I should be, but responses to these haven't helped me figure out what a good post really is, they've just shown me that even here there are people into the kind of elitist trip that's been around since the BBS days.

The guidelines are pretty clear, so how is Hijacked Plane Said to Land in New Delhi less relevant than, say Try This Quiz -- Famous Dates in American History?
posted by swift at 3:44 PM on October 3, 2001


(BBC's now reporting this hijacking as a false alarm. MetaTalk, anyone?)
posted by holgate at 3:57 PM on October 3, 2001


The Times of India is reporting on their front page that this was just a lil'ol mix up:

"The message. . . said the plane had been hijacked, was promptly passed on to the pilots who locked the cockpit. All the while, passengers thought the hijackers were inside the cockpit while the pilots were under the impression that the hijackers were with the passengers.

Whoops!
posted by donovan at 4:07 PM on October 3, 2001


(BBC's now reporting this hijacking as a false alarm. MetaTalk, anyone?)
posted by holgate at 4:11 PM on October 3, 2001


(BBC's now reporting this hijacking as a false alarm. MetaTalk, anyone?)

Coincidentally enough, the MeTa thread is ongoing even as we speak.
posted by briank at 4:12 PM on October 3, 2001


Swift -- relevance is not necessarily one of the qualities of a good post. Again, the guidelines:

A good post to MetaFilter is something that meets the following criteria: most people haven't seen it before, there is something interesting about the content on the page, and it might warrant discussion from others.

You'll agree that the quiz certainly spurred discussion of the sort typically found on MetaFilter, while this thread has not. But, to your credit, there are some MeFi'ers who do not approve of that sort of post either. On the whole, the quiz post, while not the best post ever to grace the frontpage, was about par for MetaFilter.

You would do well not to turn this into a personal attack. Ad hominems are even less well-regarded than breaking news posts.
posted by briank at 4:26 PM on October 3, 2001


Sorry, briank. No ad hominem was intended.
posted by swift at 4:48 PM on October 3, 2001


briank - I don't see you offering any kind of discussion!
posted by revbrian at 6:02 PM on October 3, 2001


That was my point in the first place, revbrian. It really didn't merit discussion.
posted by briank at 6:13 PM on October 3, 2001


I am a newbie, so perhaps I don't understand things, but to me all the complaint posts are much worse than the occasional questionable link.


Metafilter has become so large and self-referential that half of our energies seem to be spent analyzing whether or not a particular link should be getting posted and discussed.

It fucking sucks.
posted by glenwood at 7:46 PM on October 3, 2001


[Metafilter has become so large and self-referential that half of our energies seem to be spent analyzing whether or not a particular link should be getting posted and discussed. ]

It would be nice if Matt officially appointed moderators since they seem to be appointing themselves in droves.
posted by revbrian at 3:38 AM on October 4, 2001


briank, you should have gone to another thread a long, long time ago.

holgate, after you found that the hijack was false, why could that have not been an interesting topic of discussion? a false alarm

what a crazy thing to falsify....my god...and the remarks of the passengers makes the whole thing scary...what if there were older folk on this plane...someone with a heart problem...
posted by m2bcubed at 6:23 AM on October 4, 2001


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