On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Derek Martin wrote:
> According to reports, there were typically 4 men involved in each
> plane hijacking. These men were armed with knives with smaller than
> 4" blades. With roughly 100 or more other people on board each of
> these planes, I'm almost embarrased for our country that these people
> were successful in taking control of the plane. Almost, but I'm
> fairly certain that if I were there, I would have sat in my seat, much
> like all the rest of the passengers.
I have to come to their defense, here. The vast majority of them probably
thought that it would end the way most hijackings would: the plane, on a
tarmac, ridiculous demands, and finally being stormed, with relatively
little loss of life. The one plane that did seem to know its fate in
advance crashed in a field -- probably a crash induced by one of the
hijackers when he realized that they were being overpowered (a guess, but,
I believe, a valid one, at least based on reports I've read). I think it
*very* unfair to criticize them without having more data upon which to
base such criticism.
Sorry if I'm coming down a little strong, here, but these people are dead,
and can't really hold their own in an argument.
$.02.
-Ken
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