> jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
>
> > Speaking of which, that's one thing that kind've has me baffled;
> > obviously the details are sketchy and we may never know what actually
> > happened, but APPARENTLY these hijackers took the planes with nothing
> > more than knives and cardboard cutters??? A couple of guys with knives
> > vs 60-90 people? Hindsight is 20/20 and sitting here behind a computer
> > screen its easy to criticize, but if you're going to die anyway, what
> > have you got to lose? Take 'em out; or die trying... I suspect perhaps
> > the passengers thought it was a "routine" hijacking, maybe they'd sit
> > on the runway for a few hours before they were rescued. ?
>
> Just saw on CNN that one passenger on AA flight 93 called his
> mother in San
> Fran after it started (and I do not ever want to see that piece of video
> again, it was just too much). He said there were 3 hijackers,
> with knives,
> who also said they had bombs. Claiming to have a bomb will
> definitely tip
> the scales.
That, and they probably had no expectation that they were going to be
crashed into a building.. I suspect they figured they would sit on an
airport runway for a while and then be released. In the future, I also
suspect that hijackers who tried this crap would be bludgeoned to death with
laptops and carryon luggage pretty much immediately.
Also, it seems the folks on the flight that went down in PA, they figured
out they were going to be crashed from cell phone calls. One man called his
wife and told her they were going to try and overpower them and "We're all
going to die, but we are going to do something." God bless them, they
probably saved thousands of lives by preventing that plane from making it's
target.
/Curt
Chelsea, MI
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