Are you off course a little?

[Jack Shephard]

Originally Posted by pelathais

I don't get it. Pan Am flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb, not by an error in its course or heading. ???

Originally Posted by Mirth1981

Right...I was wondering the same thing...

Good concept though, even if they got the specific flight wrong.

Originally Posted by pelathais

How many of us are wrestling around with our "charts" and quarreling with our navigator and are completely oblivious to the ticking time bomb in our cargo hold?

Originally Posted by pelathais

I still don't get it JT. The "gauges" had nothing to do with the fact that there was a bomb planted in the cargo hold.

As long as the bomb was aboard, the plane and its occupants were all in mortal peril - no matter what the navigator and pilots did. The "hostile situation" existed because of the bomb.

You cut and pasted the account of the plane's flight plans (without attribution) from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_...03#Flight_plan.

No where in the quoted section, nor anywhere in the entire article was there any reference to Flight 103 being off course. In fact, the article makes it appear that everything was going well right up to the moment the bomb went off.

I guess Timmy (sigh!) wins this one. Even when we are "flying" within our assigned airspace and even after we've done everything correctly to ensure that we are "on the correct heading and course" through life, the enemy can still sneak a bomb on board and destroy our hopes of a safe and successful journey.

Does "the devil" really have that much power over whether we make it through or not? I don't think so. Perhaps the whole thing fails because of a false (or incorrect?) analogy.

Maybe Korean Airlines Flight 007 might make a better analogy.

Wow, ok my bad. First I thought that I had put the Wikipedia link on there...my bad. I had been looking at different stories about planes and things and came across the one about the Korean Airlines 007 and when I chose to do this thread I remembered some of the story but messed up the airlines name and some specifics. This is the first thread that I have done this too (messed up like this) and I am sorry. In my attempt to make and interesting thread I made it interesting for post WRONG info and not siting my source (though the source posted was the wrong story).

*********Sorry to everyone that has read this thread and commented on it.**************

It was not my intention to post mis-information and not site the source. I was starting this thread on a break at work and didn't get time to recheck what I was posting. That is a cardinal broken rule. Again I am sorry. Don't expect to see this type of thing again. Korean Airlines 007 was what I was thinking and posted this whole thing wrong. I wish we could delete this thread and go on. It doesn't matter I can live with the mistake. I guess I was the one WAY 'off course' in this entire thread.....my bad.