Heard yesterday that all the passengers, on the plane that crashed in PA,
were all forced to the back of the plane by the hijackers. They were then
ordered to call up their love ones to tell them that they were hijacked and
that they are about to die.
-----Original Message-----
From: jon@dakota-truck.net [mailto:jon@dakota-truck.net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:16 PM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
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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