(John Galban) wrote in message . com...

"Flight attendants notified ground control. "

Haaahaaa! I love reporters. They always manage to throw an amusing
nugget into every aviation related story :-)

FWIW (not that it's worth much) I read that and assumed they
were talking about some company air-to-ground comm capability.
I've seen flight attendents bring printouts of some kind of
company communication into the cockpit on some flights (pre 9/11)
so at least some flights on some airlines seem to have this capability?

Sydney