Car driven into Glasgow airport terminal

tenkfeet · Post by **tenkfeet** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:18 pm

Holly f**k http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6257194.stm

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:23 pm

Clucking bell, I must have missed that by minutes

My flight back got in at 2pm.

dezzy · Post by **dezzy** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:25 pm

james · Post by **james** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:27 pm

Are we safe anywhere these days?

dezzy · Post by **dezzy** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:31 pm

james wrote:Are we safe anywhere these days?

I've been up and down from Glasgow Airport to Heathrow twice this week and got another couple of visits the week after next. Starting to think this jet-setting thing ain't all it's cracked up to be when sh*t like this happens! I always assumed we were not important enough for anyone to give a toss about doing anything to Glasgow or Glasgow Airport.

I guess we still don't know full story though . . .

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:34 pm

Eyewitnesses have described a Jeep Cherokee being driven at speed towards the building with flames coming out from underneath.

They have also described seeing two Asian men, one of whom was on fire, who had been in the car.

Fark!

woody · Post by **woody** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:37 pm

dezzy wrote:
james wrote:Are we safe anywhere these days?
I've been up and down from Glasgow Airport to Heathrow twice this week and got another couple of visits the week after next. Starting to think this jet-setting thing ain't all it's cracked up to be when sh*t like this happens! I always assumed we were not important enough for anyone to give a toss about doing anything to Glasgow or Glasgow Airport.

I guess we still don't know full story though . . .

Local nutters? If there are pisssed off people in London, there will be a few in Scotland as well.

dezzy · Post by **dezzy** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:41 pm

Just listening to some of the eye witnesses on BBC news 24. Some taxi driver guy is completely speculating. I'm not convinced this is a terrorist attack yet, til I hear more from the police.

Could be as simple as: drop ciggy on seat of car, seat goes on fire, clothes go on fire, panic, try to stop car, lose control, jump out of car to try to escape flames, petrol tank blows up . . . .

But now I'm speculating too!

woody · Post by **woody** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:43 pm

Sky are saying a gas cylinder was removed from the car before it went on fire

dezzy · Post by **dezzy** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:46 pm

One of my pro photographer friends is off to the airport to take pics. Will maybe hear more from him later.

james · Post by **james** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:53 pm

dezzy wrote:
james wrote:Are we safe anywhere these days?
I've been up and down from Glasgow Airport to Heathrow twice this week and got another couple of visits the week after next. Starting to think this jet-setting thing ain't all it's cracked up to be when sh*t like this happens! I always assumed we were not important enough for anyone to give a toss about doing anything to Glasgow or Glasgow Airport.

I guess we still don't know full story though . . .

I just turned down a job that would have involved MORE air travel than currently. Terrorism wasnt a factor in this decision but Im beginning to think it was even more wise than I had thought not to take it.

Can you ever imagine getting ANYWHERE near an airport with a car from now on? Drop off points will be a thing of the past very quickly I think.

tenkfeet · Post by **tenkfeet** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:56 pm

dezzy wrote:Just listening to some of the eye witnesses on BBC news 24. Some taxi driver guy is completely speculating. I'm not convinced this is a terrorist attack yet, til I hear more from the police.

Could be as simple as: drop ciggy on seat of car, seat goes on fire, clothes go on fire, panic, try to stop car, lose control, jump out of car to try to escape flames, petrol tank blows up . . . .

But now I'm speculating too!

Evidently the occupants were fighting with police . I suppose if you were on fire you would do a little dance.

Dezzy you could never be a journalist , we need conspiracy theorys .

jj · Post by jj » Sat Jun 30, 2007 5:20 pm

Passed airport just there on way home from work. Cops everywhere, chopper in sky, motorway closed at sliproads. Scary stuff.

scott_e · Post by **scott_e** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 5:29 pm

crazy stuff. airport closed 2 people arrested.

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 5:43 pm

Suddenly the stuff that has been going off in London is getting a bit close to home....if it is a terror type attack