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Mechanic gets 3 years for sabotaging American Airlines plane in Miami
[NY Post] A former American Airlines mechanic was sentenced to more than three years in prison for tampering with a plane packed with 150 passengers set to take off to the Bahamas.Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, 60, was sentenced to 37 months behind bars Wednesday after pleading guilty in December to using a piece of foam to sabotage a Boeing 737 at Miami International Airport because he was upset over the airline's stalled union contract negotiations, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. rriiiigghht Alani, a naturalized citizen originally from Iraq, had admitted to federal investigators that he doctored the plane's air data module system – which relays critical data like aircraft speed and pitch to pilots – in a bid to obtain more overtime work, court documents show. The mechanic insisted to federal air marshals that he intended "not to cause harm to the aircraft or its Alani, of Tracy, California, used super glue to hold the foam in place prior the flight's scheduled take off, which was ultimately aborted. None of the 150 passengers or flight crew on the jetliner were injured since the plane never got off the ground, prosecutors said. A judge found no evidence that Alani had links to ISIS, allegations that arose in September after prosecutors said they found terror propaganda videos on his cellphone. "Nothing to see here. Go about your business, citizen" "The indictment doesn't charge anything related to terrorism or terrorist activity," US District Judge Marcia Cooke said during Alani's sentencing in Miami. "I don't see anything."  Federal investigators ultimately found "no linkage" between Alani and extremist groups, Assistant US Attorney Randy Hummel said. *cough* Bullshit *cough* Related: Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani: 2019-12-19 American Airlines mechanic with 'ties to ISIS' pleads guilty to sabotaging a plane with 150 passengers on board by gluing Styrofoam inside the aircraft's nose Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani: 2019-09-19 Go Figure - Mechanic who tampered with jetliner has ties to ISIS: feds Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani: 2019-09-06 Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani no longer employed by American Airlines Posted by: Frank G 2020-03-05 |
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