Re: Hijackings. Was: Re: Headed to Help in NY City

From: Mark Kuzia (flyboy01@mediaone.net)
Date: Wed Sep 12 2001 - 12:47:05 EDT


>Hopefully this is the part in the beginning of the movie where the
>bad guys do something evil, and the rest of the film is dedicated to
>non-stop butt-kicking.

Hopefully this movie ends by carpet bombing a 600 mile wide swath from
Lebanon to Afghanistan via Baghdad.

Mark Kuzia
flyboy01@mediaone.net
http://people.mw.mediaone.net/flyboy01/home.html
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1994 Dakota 15.36 @ 91.56 mph
~318ci, 5-spd, 3.90 LS (bone stock, no mods)

----- Original Message -----
From: <jon@dakota-truck.net>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: Hijackings. Was: Re: DML: Headed to Help in NY City

> jbleazard@sympatico.ca wrote:
> : 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.
>
>
> There was at least one cell phone call from a woman on the plane that
> went into the Pentagon; I don't recall who it was, but it was a news
> reporter. I think you're right, they probably had no idea what the
> intentions of the terrorists were. (Though it would seem the folks
> on the PA plane figured it out somehow.)
>
>
> : 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.
>
>
> From what I've heard this morning, that's what the stabbings were
> about; apparently they started killing stewardesses to lure the
> crew out of the cockpit. Obviously the crew had no idea what their
> intentions were either, otherwise the pilots would never have come out.
> I suspect future hijackings will be met with more resistance after
> these terrible incidents.
>
>
> :> 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.
>
>
> Hopefully this is the part in the beginning of the movie where the
> bad guys do something evil, and the rest of the film is dedicated to
> non-stop butt-kicking.
>
> --
>
> -Jon-
>
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