World’s Dumbest Terrorist Lights Himself On Fire Instead of Jetliner

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On Christmas Day, a 23-year-old Nigerian man aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam tried to ignite an incendiary device strapped to his leg during the final approach to Detroit, but the bumbling fool only managed to light his own crotch on fire instead and then got a swift ass-kicking by a Dutch passenger who helped subdue him. So what do we know about Abdul Farouk Umar Abdulmutallab? For one, not even his rich banker dad liked him. Nigeria’s This Daily reports: Read more »

By on December 26, 2009 at 1:31 pm
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Pilots Who Missed Airport Were Watching Porn or Reading Animal or Something

Hey remember that Northwest Airlines flight that overshot it’s destination (Minneapolis) by 150 miles last week and everyone thought that the pilots were asleep at the wheel? Well, as it turns out, they weren’t asleep at the wheel or fighting or giving each other handjobs or anything else scandalous, but were innocently surfing the internet on their laptops instead. Well isn’t that comforting? Read more »

By on October 27, 2009 at 11:06 am
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Northwest Airline Pilots Asleep at the Wheel or Something, Miss Airport By 150 Miles

Well here’s something to scare the beJesus out of you just as you prepare to board a flight this afternoon for a weekend away. Two Northwest Airlines pilots commanding a flight from San Diego to Minneapolis-St. Paul weren’t paying attention to what they were doing and overshot their destination considerably. Further, their failure to respond to “WTF?!” calls from air traffic controllers on the ground caused so much concern that fighter jets were enlisted to engage the aircraft in the event it’d been hijacked by dastardly terrorists. Read more »

By on October 23, 2009 at 10:05 am
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