Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> the events were > triggered by successful use of a primitive weapon, a knife... I believe it was not necessarily the knife, but the threat of a bomb on the plane(s) that was the main threat. People have been conditioned to just sit back and let the hijackers do what they want...no one has ever used a plane as a weapon such as this in the past. I believe the people on at least three of the planes really believed that the planes were going to just land at some airport...and typical hijacking negotiations would be done etc. Only the fourth plane had any indication of what these thugs were up to, and apparently, courageously overtook the terrorists and crashed the plane into the ground. Giving their lives for others. Truly a heroic act, if that is what truly happened.