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

From: Jayson Woodruff (woodrufj@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Sep 12 2001 - 13:01:10 EDT


Here's my take on that. Smart terrorist would know about the gas and bring a gas
mask. The treaten to kill a hostage every 20sec until the cockpit is opened.

Jay W

jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:

>
> Also, and this one is even more obvious... Why is it possible for the
> bulkhead between the cabin and the pilots to be breached? If the
> hijackers can't get into the cabin, the plane isn't going anywhere.
> I seem to recall several years back Paul Harvey was reporting
> on a hijacking, and kept repeating the word "gas" several times during
> the story. If the cockpit was able to be physically isolated from the
> rest of the cabin and the plane were equipped with a system to release
> gas into the cabin to put everyone to sleep, the plane could be landed
> safely and the terrorists would wake up in a jail cell somewhere.
>
>
> Dak content: ...not important right now.
>
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