It's funny cus it's true!

/got nothin
//really got a laugh out of that mental image
///cue Trump: You're fired.

They shoulda' shot it down...you know, just to be sure. It might have had a biological thought bomb on board.

ha! good headline.

I just love that we send our hijacked planes that could potentially have bombs on them over to Canada.

/hot potato!

Canada has fighter jets?

/getting the flame war started early.

My friend just got back from Toronto and was telling me how much Canadians hate Americans. With that in mind, I do hope that we continue to send our hijacked jets to Canada.

Oopsie!

Thank God we have the Canadians to protect us from British airliners!

i see this thread as an excuse to post pointless Airplane! quotes.

Rumack: Captain, how soon can you land?
Captain Oveur: I can't tell.
Rumack: You can tell me. I'm a doctor.
Captain Oveur: No. I mean I'm just not sure.
Rumack: Well, can't you take a guess?
Captain Oveur: Well, not for another two hours.
Rumack: You can't take a guess for another two hours?

Yeah, WTF is with sending planes "with issues" to Canada?

My friend just got back from Toronto and was telling me how much Canadians hate Americans. With that in mind, I do hope that we continue to send our hijacked jets to Canada.

Don't worry, the rest of Canada hates Toronto.

Seriously, why is it okay to send potentially dangerous planes to Canada, when said plane is a risk to the U.S? (See also 9/11).

/Blowing up Haligonians is ok, New Yorkers not ok.

Always remember, when changing your squawk, try not to pass through the 7500 range.

(XPDR codes: 7500 = Hijack, 7600 = Radio Failure, 7700 = Other Emergency, Generally good practice NOT to hit the 7000 range unless it is an emergency.)

wake_up


My friend just got back from Toronto and was telling me how much Canadians hate Americans. With that in mind, I do hope that we continue to send our hijacked jets to Canada.

Don't worry, the rest of Canada hates Toronto.

So does Vince Carter, apparently.

wake_up: Canada has fighter jets?

/getting the flame war started early.


Yeah, we have fighters, ok!! CF-18s! Almost a hundred of them. And our pilots are better trained and everything.

/Getting the Canadian overreaction to lame humour started early.

Maybe this is just a case of cruel pilot practical jokes...

Roger: So today is your first day?
Nigel: Yes, it's been great.
Roger: Could you run diagnostics on engine 3? It's the red button.
Nigel:
Roger: BAHAHAHAHAHA

/over

...French airforce....Canadian airforce...

What's next a story about the Mexican airforce?

/Troll for bad & racists jokes on a Friday

Toronto's not so bad... but I do hate it. It's simply that Toronto is the 'big place' in Canada and everything more or less seems to revolve around it to a greater extent than people outside of Toronto think it should.

For the record, if the Americans want to divert any planes to Canada, I'd prefer they try a splashdown in the harbour because YYZ is in Mississauga, NOT Toronto. Toronto WOULD make a nice glass parking lot.

Canada "dispatched two jets, and the jets are in visual contact with the pilot (of the Virgin flight)," the official said.

Wow! We sent the whole airforce out! Quick, someone bring the war canoes to yellow alert!

Concure on the "the rest of canada hates toronto" line, but we also have a bit of a disliking for some portions of the american people.

But if you are bored, just look up the stories of the flights during 9/11 that were diverted to Gander, NFLD. I comes down to this: we don't like americans as a group, but individuals are dealt with on an individual basis, and most are nice.

Anyway...

arsindelve

It's because Americans are worth more than Canadians.

Yeah, you never hear about missing persons alerts on Canadians.

A few years ago I was flying to London from Boston on British airways. Few minutes after taking off the automated 'We have to do an emergency water landing' message came on. The scary thing is we were still going up while the message was playing. I wanted to do the water landing before we got any higher.

But it was a few minutes before the stewardesses came around saying it was a 'technical difficulty' and they had trouble turning the message off. Weird thing is no one panicked. We just all sat there in silence with our life preservers around our neck.

arsindelve:
Yeah, we have fighters, ok!! CF-18s! Almost a hundred of them. And our pilots are better trained and everything.

Remember that time a weather baloon got blown into an air traffic lane, and they sent F-18s to shoot it down, like, 3 times, and then it flew away on it's own?

Good times...

/too slow to intercept, recommend proceeding on foot

cyberlost: arsindelve

It's because Americans are worth more than Canadians.

Is that because of the currency exchange? That means that Europeans are worth more than Americans. Hmmm...

/Even the French? C'est impossible.

arsindelve

CF-18s? A bit overzealous on the fact that your country owns the aircraft eh? Face it, they're F-18s, no difference other than they're not primarily used in naval service ;)

(hah, your air force has to use our shiatty navy equipment.)

Canadien Ambassador: It's aboot not censoring our art, it's aboot not sending your potentially explosive airplanes to our airports!

U.S. Ambassador: Fark Canada! We will not release the war criminals Phillip and Terrence.

Getting attacked by Canada is like getting punched by a priest. It's just wrong on every level.

cyberlost,

And I was just speaking with a friend of mine last night who lives in Quebec. He commented that there isn't a very large and pervasive anti-American sentiment in Canada. He mentioned that, like everything else in life, it gets blown way out or proportion by the media.

Crazy how that works, isn't it?

Why does the rest of Canada hate Toronto? Seemed like a nice enough place when I was there...

We have fighter jets?

Oh, and I don't think people in Toronto hate americans, they just think they're much better then them. But yeah, pretty much everybody else in the country hates Toronto.

NuclearWinter:

CF-18s? A bit overzealous on the fact that your country owns the aircraft eh? Face it, they're F-18s, no difference other than they're not primarily used in naval service ;)

(hah, your air force has to use our shiatty navy equipment.)


Dude - Are you like, even aware they have a fake painted canopy on the bottom?? That so makes them special.

/Yup, they're basically F-18s, but older, and more poorly maintained.

of course Canada has jets... well, Canadians are always saying "take off"

/hoser

Squidloe

Things are always blown out of proportion. In reality, if America or Canada were ever ever invaded, we would both protect and defend each other.

arsindelve
Yes. It's all about international currency exchanges. Since the Euro is so strong right now, the Europeans divert their hijacked planes to the Ukraine. The Ukraine is weak.

Canada scrambled fighter jets to have a plane entering Canadian airspace that was squawking a hijack signal land at the first available airport in Canada, and it's the Americans' fault. Typical Fark. If Evil Bush weren't president, the Canadians would cheerfully allow planes emitting hijack distress signals to transit their airspace?

cyberlost:

arsindelve
Yes. It's all about international currency exchanges. Since the Euro is so strong right now, the Europeans divert their hijacked planes to the Ukraine. The Ukraine is weak.


Where can poor Turkish planes go? Into the sea?

cyberlost:

Things are always blown out of proportion. In reality, if America or Canada were ever ever invaded, we would both protect and defend each other.


Invaded by whom? If they were invaded by, say, Zimbabwe, I simply would not get off the couch to help. Same with the French.

wake_up

your a fool. you should stop living.

US diverts possible hyjackings to Canada becuase the terroists well be like, ahh crap it's just Canada and disarm thier bombs for the next time.

I know I posted this one yesterday. It's still funny.

Probably for the same reasons that most of the US can't stand NYC & their idea that the world revolves around them.

Well said.

Canada "dispatched two jets, and the jets are in visual contact with the pilot

Should read dispached BOTH jets, one on loan from the USA who covers thier ass.

iron81: I know I posted this one yesterday. It's still funny.


Wow! How did the photographer get out alive??!? Cool!!!

(Warning: Threadjackery writ large.)

"Why did none of the pilot crews [in the four planes that were being hijacked in September 11th] punch in the four-digit hijacking code -- the buttons for which are located in four places throughout the cockpit, including right on the control stick -- an operation would have taken only a second?"

- From pg. 204 of Citizen you!: Helping Your Government Help Itself, a satiric text criticizing the Bush administration. The passage is from a section listing suspicious events on September 11th that are intended to lead the reader to question whether the U.S. government is being completely honest about the attacks, and/or whether they have something to hide.

MoriyaMug

I would say that Hate is too strong of a word. Canadians like biatching about the big tough neighbour and getting dragged around on the whims of that neighbour. Ontario (the big province economically) and Toronto (the big city) are easy targets for the rest of Canadians. In the same vein, Americans are the big neighbour that drags us (Canadians) around in the global scene. Its not really meant in a malicious way, we know we are all on the same team ... ya just gotta get used to the complaining.