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United States: Midwest Airlines cancelled a flight headed to San Francisco because a passenger found Arabic-style handwriting
in an inflight magazine.
The plane, carrying 118 passengers and five crew members, had already pulled away from the gate at Mitchell International Airport Sunday evening. It returned to the gate, the passengers got off, security authorities were notified, all luggage was checked and the aircraft was inspected. Nothing was found.
The writing turned out to be a prayer in Farsi.
Midwest Airlines Cancels Flight - The Guardian, 21st September 2004.
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1: Posted by: tim gueguen | September 24, 2004 5:35 AM
Betcha the same kind of thing could have happened if the writing had been in Thai or one of the other languages of the region.
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