US EditionJewish Campers Were Kicked Off a Plane in Europe. Their Story Is All Too Familiar to Me.
VALENCIA AIRPORT, SPAIN, JUL 25 – The pilot who removed 50 Jewish youths from a flight previously trained two 9/11 hijackers, including Mohamed Atta, according to Israel's Diaspora Affairs Ministry.
- On Wednesday, a group of around 50 Jewish children and teenagers was removed from a Vueling Airlines flight at Valencia Airport after singing traditional Hebrew songs.
- In a separate disclosure, Israel's Diaspora Affairs Ministry said the pilot had trained two of the 9/11 hijackers, including Mohamed Atta.
- Vueling said the group tampered with passenger safety equipment, posing a high risk, and called police when the children refused to stop singing.
- The children were left stranded at Valencia Airport, and a community organization provided meals and hotel accommodations, while a 21-year-old group leader was detained during the removal.
- With no resolution yet, the camp has lodged its grievance and legal scrutiny is underway, as authorities investigate the circumstances of the removal.
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Jewish Campers Were Kicked Off a Plane in Europe. Their Story Is All Too Familiar to Me.
This week, a group of 44 French children on a trip with their Jewish summer camp, Kineret, were kicked off a plane to Paris from Valencia, Spain, after a confrontation with the airline crew.The airline, Vueling, claimed the children were “disruptive” and that they “mishandled emergency equipment,” but has provided no evidence to support the claim. Public accounts so far suggest that all the children had done was sing or say a name in Hebrew. Ano…
The commander of the aircraft from which the teenagers were excluded, briefly trained, twenty-five years ago, the two pilots who crashed their aircraft in the towers of the World Trade Center.
The airline denied any discrimination against a group of young French men of Jewish faith, disembarked from one of its planes on Wednesday. The captain had been the instructor of two of the terrorists of 11 September 2001, points the lawyer to the holiday colony.
In the Vueling case, a disturbing element of the course of the pilot-in-command Iván Chirivalla caught attention. This man trained two of the terrorists involved in the 11 September attacks, reports our colleagues from Europe 1. This Spanish pilot worked in 2000 as a flight instructor at a civil aviation school in Florida. Among his students were Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, two of the main perpetrators of the World Trade Center attacks. I…
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