In article <9nmm5u$d3s$1@bent.twistedbits.net>, 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. ?
I'm not convinced that the passengers in three of the planes even knew
what was happening. I've heard of a few people who made calls on their
cell phones, but so far those have all been from the fourth plane that went
down in PA. I have yet to hear of anyone making a call from the other
three planes.
The next question is... how do you take over a plane without anyone
noticing? I don't have a good answer. I've always seen the doors to
the cockpit locked while in flight. Maybe they took a hostage or
something, possibly a young kid and threatened to kill them if anyone
got up to do anything. I doubt we'll ever really know.
> Anyway, its all just stupid speculation... What a day! :-( It still
> hasn't really sunk in for me; I keep expecting the credits to roll.
Nah, you know this isn't a movie because nobody named Bruce, Arnold
or Sylvester managed to save the day at the last moment.
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