Terror names linked to Air France 447

[Weatherman]

Two passengers with names linked to Islamic terrorism were on board the Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 on board, it has emerged.
French secret servicemen established the connection while working through the list of those who boarded the doomed Airbus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 31.
Agents are now trying to establish dates of birth for the two dead passengers, and family connections.
There is a possibility that the name similarities are simply a "macabre coincidence," the source added, but the revelation is still being "taken very seriously."

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Terror-Names-Linked-To-Doomed-Flight-AF-447-Two-Passengers-Shared-Names-Of-Radical-Muslims/Article/200906215300405?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15300405_Terror_Names_Linked_To_Doomed_Flight_AF_447%3A_Two_Passengers_Shared_Names_Of_Radical_Muslims

[jimmy olsen]

Caliga = Sherlock Holmes

[Caliga]

 

[DisturbedPervert]

Impossible, internet and tv told me so.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Surely the screening process of making fat middleaged Americans remove their shoes and belts and searching European grandma's hasn't failed  ?

[Warspite]

Appealingly absolute. 

[Malthus]

Phew. I guess we don't have to worry about stuff like thunderstorms any more - just keep people with Islamic sounding names off of airplanes, and they will not crash. 

[Zanza]

just keep people with Islamic sounding names off of airplanes, and they will not crash. 

I wonder if the two names they found were "Mohammed" and "Ali" or something like that. A clear match between the terrorist list and the passenger list!

[Valmy]

Phew. I guess we don't have to worry about stuff like thunderstorms any more - just keep people with Islamic sounding names off of airplanes, and they will not crash. 

The experts I heard thought the actual chances of a thunderstorm taking down a plane were incredibly unlikely.  I don't really think we have that much to fear from thunderstorms or, you know, planes would be going down all the time.

That is not to say these two dudes had anything to do with it.

[DGuller]

The experts I heard thought the actual chances of a thunderstorm taking down a plane were incredibly unlikely.  I don't really think we have that much to fear from thunderstorms or, you know, planes would be going down all the time.

The actual chance of a plane going down is also incredibly unlikely, so that proves nothing.

[Malthus]

Phew. I guess we don't have to worry about stuff like thunderstorms any more - just keep people with Islamic sounding names off of airplanes, and they will not crash. 

The experts I heard thought the actual chances of a thunderstorm taking down a plane were incredibly unlikely.  I don't really think we have that much to fear from thunderstorms or, you know, planes would be going down all the time.

That is not to say these two dudes had anything to do with it.

From what I read that isn't the case at all. More like that experienced pilots in a modern airplane had the tools to avoid thunderstorms.

Violent or extreme turbulence caused by thunderstorms is considered extremely dangerous if rare, and pilots are supposed to avoid them for that very reason:

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/01/f-turbulence-air-travel-altitude.html

[garbon]

The actual chance of a plane going down is also incredibly unlikely, so that proves nothing.

Presumably there are different degrees of unlikeliness...

[Valmy]

The actual chance of a plane going down is also incredibly unlikely, so that proves nothing.

Well I hardly claim to be an expert on planes.  I merely saw an interview on the Lehrer News Hour.

[Caliga]

I wonder if the two names they found were "Mohammed" and "Ali" or something like that. A clear match between the terrorist list and the passenger list!

I've always thought the list of "names" used for that stuff is a complete joke for that reason... there have got to be, what, like 50 million people named Muhammad Hussein, for example?

[DisturbedPervert]

there have got to be, what, like 50 million people named Muhammad Hussein, for example?

None of whom should be allowed on planes.