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Miami: Muslim American Airlines mechanic charged with sabotaging plane

Sep 6, 2019 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

Relax, you greasy Islamophobe. This has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism. How do we know that? Because the perpetrator, Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, tells us so: “He said that his motive in tampering with the navigational system was because he was ‘upset’ over stalled contract negotiations between the mechanics’ union and American Airlines that has raged for months — that ‘the dispute had affected him financially.'”

Will authorities accept that explanation at face value or investigate Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani further? The former is much more likely.

And will Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani lose his job? Don’t count on it: American Airlines is decidedly pro-jihad.

“American Airlines mechanic in Miami charged with sabotaging plane. It aborted takeoff.” By Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, September 5, 2019:

An American Airlines jet’s navigation system was disabled by a Miami mechanic disgruntled over stalled contract negotiations, according to federal charges.

An American Airlines mechanic was arrested Thursday on a sabotage charge accusing him of disabling a navigation system on a flight with 150 people aboard before it was scheduled to take off from Miami International Airport earlier this summer.

The reason, according to a criminal complaint affidavit filed in Miami federal court: Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, a veteran employee, was upset over stalled union contract negotiations.

None of the passengers and crew on the flight to Nassau were injured because the tampering with the so-called air data module caused an error alert as the pilots powered up the plane’s engines on the runway July 17, according to a criminal complaint affidavit filed in Miami federal court.

As a result, flight No. 2834 was aborted and taken out of service for routine maintenance at America’s hangar at MIA, which is when the tampering with the ADM system was discovered during an inspection. An AA mechanic found a loosely connected tube in front of the nose gear underneath the cockpit that had been deliberately obstructed with some sort of hard foam material.

Alani is charged with “willfully damaging, destroying or disabling an aircraft” and is expected to have his first appearance in Miami federal court on Friday.

According to the complaint filed Thursday, Alani glued the foam inside the tube leading from outside the plane to its air data module, a system that reports aircraft speed, pitch and other critical flight data. As a result, if the plane had taken off that day from MIA, the pilots would have had to operate the aircraft manually because the ADM system would not have received any computer data.

After his arrest Thursday, the affidavit says that Alani told federal air marshals assigned to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force that “his intention was not to cause harm to the aircraft or its passengers.”

He said that his motive in tampering with the navigational system was because he was “upset” over stalled contract negotiations between the mechanics’ union and American Airlines that has raged for months — that “the dispute had affected him financially.”

He further said he only tampered with the plane’s air data module “in order to cause a delay or have the flight canceled in anticipation of obtaining overtime work,” according to the affidavit….

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  1. Dusty says

    Sep 6, 2019 at 9:20 am

    Another job muslims should be disqualified for.

    • Kat says

      Sep 6, 2019 at 9:36 am

      Exactly! They do not belong anywhere near transportation or infrastructure!!

      • Paul J says

        Sep 7, 2019 at 12:25 am

        The trouble is though, you do that and then you give a so-called “moderate” muslim the excuse that they are being persecuted and thus justified in retaliating. As far as I’m concerned a “moderate” muslim is nothing but a sleeper devout radical muslim waiting to have their button pressed. I don’t trust ANY muslim as far as I can spit. I am courteous and civil towards them but I would never trust one. Better to err on the side of caution. I hate having to be that way but their “faith” demands such a mindset.

    • mortimer says

      Sep 6, 2019 at 10:01 am

      Even a Lebanese cabinet minister admitted he cannot tell which Muslim is a secret terrorist. They would ‘play the game’ of being moderate while preparing a jihad operation. The fact that a terrorist can also be a high-functioning and very organized engineer, mechanic or even a doctor proves that jihadists are not ‘mentally ill’ is many uninformed people claim. Jihadists are under a form of self-induced hypnosis called ‘over-valued ideation’ through which they achieve a blind faith in Islam’s self-referentially incoherent teaching and immoral commandments … such as Islam’s terror doctrine. ‘Turhibunna’ (terrorize them) K.8.60.

      • MR W Rowen says

        Sep 6, 2019 at 12:20 pm

        Sounds like a hoof in mouth problem

        • J D S says

          Sep 7, 2019 at 10:07 am

          Hey Mortimer…….You got it right again.
          Employers hiring Muslims need to sign up for jihad watch and do a lot of studying before they hire a muslim…and then DONT hire them because somewhere back in the deep dark depths of their brain lies the terrorist planted there by a so called prophet those many centuries ago and passed on to all Muslims who really believe in this mad man’s edict. It may or may not be brought out of that depth but one never knows WHEN, WHERE or IF it will happen….but, and there always has to be a BUT, If the employer don’t hire the muslim and hired a non Muslim instead, to fill the spot, then all hell will break loose and the employers just might find themselves in Court and in the unemployment line…Great world isn’t it…but still America is better than anywhere else…FOR A TIME, that is.

      • t. says

        Sep 6, 2019 at 7:09 pm

        What a coincidence! I was thinking the same thing you’re saying, for some days now, after reading some of the comments about inbreeding among Muslims and its possible effect on intelligence which I don’t agree with.

        You’re right in your analysis, mortimer.

  2. OREN WYSOCKI says

    Sep 6, 2019 at 9:50 am

    He is A veteran mechanic and he did not know that he was not going to be the one who repaired that piece of the equipment? He knew they would find the glue he used to obstruct the gps system if he wasn’t the mechanic, so he was hoping that the plane would crash destroying the evidence. The government is actively covering up terrorism. muslim doctors giving Jews the wrong meds, muslim air plane mechanics trying to kill their passengers due to A belief system that openly tells them to do so. Zero confidence in the Palestinian government stopping the right of return, or genuinely managing border checkpoints, or searching for terrorists, weapons and terrorist funding. While Jews and other non muslims are racists for not wanting services provided by muslims. How many more of us have to suffer or die because some people want to believe that brown people can never constitute A threat or be considered an enemy? How many times do we have to point out that if every word of the koran and muslim behavior was being committed by white germans the left would have a completely different opinion about what should happen to them? How is that not leftist racism against whites and Israelis? We should be allowed to beat them over the head with these points, to expose their racism, alter as much of society as is willing to be changed by the truth, and expose the rest of society that is not. In G-d I trust.

    • Ronnie says

      Sep 6, 2019 at 6:33 pm

      You hit the nail.on tbe head. Totally agreed you will be attacked as I am when I comment with truth.

  3. ME Infidel says

    Sep 6, 2019 at 9:56 am

    Stalled union contract negations are justification for murdering 150 passengers?! Couldn’t have anything to do with his Death Cult ideology, could it?

    This story was briefly mentioned on a radio station in Portland, ME but no name was given. Shocking!

  4. Hugh Fitzgerald says

    Sep 6, 2019 at 10:13 am

    Why should anyone believe that his attempt at mass murder was not prompted by Islam? Because he claims that he was angry about stalled contract talks?

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 6, 2019 at 3:00 pm

      Yes–this is obvious bs. Since union negotiations are by their very nature collective, then it is notable that other airplane mechanics didn’t take out their frustrations with such talks having stalled by sabotaging planes–but this didn’t happen.

      Nor would it–I cannot imagine an Infidel mechanic doing any such thing.

      This is not like a work slowdown by, say, janitors.

      It might be a bit unpleasant for customers to face overflowing trash bins, but would not if short-term harm anyone.

      But *disabling the navigation system*? If not caught by the pilots or other mechanics this would endanger everyone on these flights.

      Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani should not just be fired, but should be banned from working on any airline. He should, in fact, face legal prosecution.

      Of course, this almost certainly had nothing to do with union issues, but was an act of Jihad to begin with.

    • commonsense says

      Sep 7, 2019 at 10:32 am

      It is inarguable, based on the all-too-frequent behavior of so many Muslims, that they are ticking time bombs, resorting to violence in response to some grievance or affront, real or imagined. It is indeed plausible that our friend here, Abdul Majeed, acted as he did because he was enraged about a protracted labor dispute, but it was the Islam in him that served as the catalyst which drove him to commit this act of depravity. It was no surprise – no surprise at all – to learn that this monster’s name was Abdul…slave of Allah.

    • Infidel says

      Sep 7, 2019 at 11:55 pm

      It’s a disgrace that his prior termination from Alaska Airlines wasn’t looked into when hiring him

      • Wendy says

        Sep 8, 2019 at 11:28 am

        An article about that popped up on my news feed yesterday. It turns out he made several mistakes at Alaska, was investigated by the FAA (double-dipping was one charge), and he also filed a discrimination lawsuit against Alaska (which was unsuccessful). And yet he was still hired by AA? So you have two scary things going on here… The act of Jihad, and the fact that a major worldwide airline hired an incompetent mechanic.

  5. Angemon says

    Sep 6, 2019 at 10:25 am

    He said that his motive in tampering with the navigational system was because he was “upset” over stalled contract negotiations between the mechanics’ union and American Airlines that has raged for months — that “the dispute had affected him financially.”

    And losing his job will affect him even more.

  6. Joe Rizoli says

    Sep 6, 2019 at 10:52 am

    Just a time bomb ready to go off somewhere all over the world when Muslims work at these jobs..

  7. tgusa says

    Sep 6, 2019 at 11:04 am

    I’m angry because I haven’t got a raise or an increase in benefits. Kill all the customers! Good gosh.

    If you believe that senatress difi with her chi-spy butler/chauffeur of 20 years was a one off you haven’t been paying attention. Our government through their come one come all multi-culti inclusion program has assured Americans that people who want to do the American people harm through malice, incompetence or ambivalence are embedded in every aspect of our workforce and society. Its as if we have people running the country that have had half their brain removed. Americans cannot trust anyone anymore. In today’s America, suspicion abounds. It is undermining the fabric of the nation. That’s a helluva way to run a country.

  8. Joe Dokes says

    Sep 6, 2019 at 11:21 am

    Just a contract dispute. Nothing to see here.

    • Darla Ratliff says

      Sep 8, 2019 at 12:53 am

      Wow. I think you should pull your head out of the sand

  9. SB says

    Sep 6, 2019 at 12:49 pm

    When I first saw the headline by the AP, I immediately thought probably a muslim. Of course it wasn’t mentioned in the article. Surprise, surprise! It’s hard me to wrap my mind around the idea that American will keep him on for the job, and that he won’t do prison time and not be deported?

    Not my finest writing; still working on my first cup of coffee.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 6, 2019 at 3:04 pm

      I take your point, SB.

  10. awake says

    Sep 6, 2019 at 1:12 pm

    Stalled union contract negotiations, indeed.

  11. James Lincoln says

    Sep 6, 2019 at 1:20 pm

    This is very serious. Disabling a navigation system on a commercial airliner could have been catastrophic -were it not for the competence and professionalism of the pilots.

    Perhaps the US flying public should hit American Airlines in the pocketbook: no future booked flights on that airline until all employed Muslims are removed from positions that allow direct contact with aircraft involving maintenance / aircraft security.

  12. ElderlyZionist says

    Sep 6, 2019 at 3:21 pm

    “…Alani told federal air marshals assigned to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force that ‘his intention was not to cause harm to the aircraft or its passengers.’”

    Liar. Charge him with attempted mass murder. Try him. Convict him. Hang him.

  13. GreekEmpress says

    Sep 6, 2019 at 4:02 pm

    Stalled union talks?? Not buying it.

  14. Lor says

    Sep 6, 2019 at 7:17 pm

    What a liar! Remember, our 9/11 anniversary is not far off. Perhaps this was a practice run.

  15. AP says

    Sep 7, 2019 at 5:48 am

    Yes he was trying to hurt as many as possible, while not being detected. Get a rope.

  16. FYI says

    Sep 7, 2019 at 9:09 am

    Hello this is your new captain speaking,captain AHMED..there has been a change in the flight plan.

    Once the mechanics,muhammed and muhmmed have finished, we will set off.

    Flight 911 is now going to mecca instead..Our stewards Abdool,Abdoool and Abdooool will be available to answer your questions.

    halal food will now be served in the galley.allahu akbar!

  17. Giacomo Latta says

    Sep 7, 2019 at 9:31 am

    And the charge of attempted murder of 150 innocents is for when?

  18. Old Fat Bald Socially Inept Ron says

    Sep 7, 2019 at 10:21 am

    Global Islamization,
    NOT !!!
    Global Warming,
    is the true existential threat.

    The historical perfect storm of
    Islamic deception
    combined with
    Infidel Ignorance,
    has always been the most effective weapon of cultural destruction in Islam’s arsenal.

    As Islam wins
    Freedom dies

  19. Dr. Doom says

    Sep 7, 2019 at 11:45 am

    No Muslim should ever be allowed to work on U.S. aircraft, civil or military.

  20. Madeleine Neidoff says

    Sep 7, 2019 at 2:30 pm

    Clearly a Muslim good guy, who is fighting big corp oppression

  21. AP says

    Sep 7, 2019 at 6:42 pm

    Not if you don’t want your butt hitting the ground are a high rate of speed.

  22. SamB says

    Sep 9, 2019 at 2:50 am

    Okay, Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani you were upset at the stalled salary negotiations , so you sabotaged the plane. There are two scenarios, 1) you hoped that the faulty repair work was going to be discovered, 2) The eventual crash of the planes crash was going to vindicate your failed pay negotiations. There is a third option: 3) that being a Muslim your dastardly act was going to be seen as an infiltration by al-Quaeda,\Taliban or any Muslim organization, 4) You are a hero to Muslims. In any case I don’t believe you since salary negotiations ought to be taken up a Labor UNION not by a possible fatal crash!!

  23. Jedothek says

    Sep 9, 2019 at 2:21 pm

    In support of Robert’s point:
    1. Alani’s statement that his intention was not to cause harm to the aircraft or its passengers is ludicrous; clearly disabling a plane’s navigation system is hazardous.
    2. Therefore, statements from Alani about his motives are not to be trusted.
    3. Therefore, an Islamic motive is a distinct possibility.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 9, 2019 at 11:15 pm

      Yep.

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