On 5/5/07, Richard M. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Passengers on Flight 93 only decided to fight back once they had learned via cellphone that 2 other hijacked planes had just been turned into suicide WMDs. In almost all previous plane hijackings, earlier hijackers were not bent of committing suicide and taking all the passengers with them. So yes, in 20/20 hindsight the Flight 93 passengers should have fought back earlier. However, before 9/11 it probably would have been a mistake in most cases for passengers to try to play army commandos. To their credit, the passengers on Flight 93 did realize that the rules had changed and they were able to stop another WMD attack.
To their credit they stopped another attack, unfortunately they didn't act quick enough to prevent their own deaths. There is plenty of room for arguing how early on they found out what the terrorists' end game was, but I tend to believe they simply didn't act quickly enough to save their own lives.
One lesson I think that was learned in the 9/11 hijackings is that the cockpit door of airplane should be kept locked from the inside while a plane is in the air.
Why we had to wait until 9/11 to figure this out is beyond me, has Israel not ALWAYS had reinforced and locked cockpit doors? _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
