Another Passenger from Flight 327 Steps Forward With Disturbing New Details(Part V)

Womens Wall Street ^ | 8/12/04 | Annie Jacobsen

[sockmonkey]

This is Part V of the ongoing series entitled “Terror in the Skies, Again?”

A few days ago, WomensWallStreet.com received an important email. It was from Billie Jo Rodriguez, another passenger who was on Northwest Airlines flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles on June 29. Billie Jo is a Certified Public Accountant living in Oxnard, California. She had some additional, disturbing information about flight 327 that she felt someone needed to know. She had been so terrified by what happened on the flight that she sent two emails to the Department of Homeland Security telling them about the experience, but she hadn't heard back from them. Then, through a series of events, she heard about my article, "Terror in the Skies, Again?" She and I have had numerous conversations and she is willing to share her story on the record. The following interview is based on conversations Billie Jo and I have had, as well as a discussion she had with my editor.

ANNIE: Where were you sitting on flight 327?
BILLIE JO: I was in seat 21-C. Three of the Middle Eastern men were sitting right near me --- the man in the jogging suit [with Arabic writing] was in the aisle seat right behind me (22C), another man from the group sat right next to me (21-B) and another man from the group sat one row in front of me (20-E).

ANNIE: Tell me what the men were doing that was out of the ordinary?
BILLIE JO: It was when we were up in the air and they started walking up and down the aisles. And the eye contact. The thing that really got me was the eye contact. It was so subtle. If you know somebody, you look at them. You nod your head.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The best case scenario is that they were a bunch of musicians that deliberately behaved suspiciously to frighten the passengers.

Yes, it looks like a prank. A prank which should have been viewed with the same sense of humor that jokes in airports about bombs are.

[Travis McGee]

I agree. This was a "probe."

[Maeve]

BIG PING

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Bump to read.

[RepublicanHostageinCalif]

Boy- doesn't this sound like the investigation into JFK's assassination??

"no mama, you just think you saw gun smoke from the ridge"

[beaversmom]

Thanks for posting this. Had I been on the plane I know nature would have been taking its course in my pants. I hope Annie keeps the pressure on. The passengers on the plane weren't hallucinating. Something was up. Just one or two questions for anyone that knows. What kind of weapons do the air marshalls carry? Had these guys attempted something, would the air marshalls been able to take on 14 of them? The part about them being in such is a big group like that is worrying.

[DoctorZIn]

This article has been posted to DoctorZin’s New News Blog!

[jaykay]

Self inflicted swirly?

[JerseyHighlander]

While not discounting a "Clark Griswald airplane toilet" episode:

The people who run Women's Wall Street are friggin' maroons of the first order. They know it, they are afraid of burnrate at the moment, and will do anything, I mean anything to stir up (cheap) publicity and more webpage hits to try to at least maintain their advertising and co-branding accounts. Which puts them on the order fo many other less reputable websites posted here. None the less, these people are attempting "Oprah" like mass hysteria, with really lousy ability to do so. This could single handedly be the stupidest thing I've ever read, and I read fark.com daily.

[eno_]

I think it is more likely that they are reponding to attmepts to discredit them.

For example, that reporter who supposedly found the "Syrian Wayne Newton" playing a casino in California. OK, so we have SOME idea who SOME of the musicians are. Now how plausible is it that a third tier casino in Nowhere, CA will pay enough to fund 12 musicians flying cross country to play a 2-day gig? Musicians on that level ride the hound.

The sheeple are being told to go back to sleep. I welcome this continued effort to wake them up.

[Tactical]

Is it just me or what?

If I had been on that plane and saw stuff like is being stated, I would exit my seat and go back to the galley and talk to the flight attendants about my suspicions.

And I would not have returned to my seat. I think it would be time to gather up a few big boys on the plane and confront those guys telling them to sit down and not get out of their seats again until it's time to exit the plane.

Piss your pants if you have to, basically.

Don't know about you all, but I ain't going down in a plane without having the pleasure of hurting someone that is causing it to happen. Where's the cowboy spirit these days. Right is right and wrong is wrong. Sit down or I'll kick yer butt!

Sue me, but I'll still be alive.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Prank or probe or whatever, this was not funny. PC must end and these people should not feel free to do such things.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[StillProud2BeFree]

Yes, I do have the interview on tape. I will post it later today if anyone would like to have access to it.

[Per-Ling]

Your best case scenario sounds the most plausible. Wearing openly, clothing with "Arabic-style" writing on it screams "Look at me! I'm not from around these parts! I may be up to no good, as if you couldn't already tell by my 'furtive glances!'" Same type of behavior you see in punk kids at the mall wearing some outlandishly vulgar t-shirt.

They were wanting attention and they got it.

[JerseyHighlander]

I'm not trying to ridicule their immediate reaction, as Tactical stated, my reaction also might be very confrontational, to the point of arrest. BUT, they printed this without verification, or any journalistic legwork after the event. And, now that the story has washed out, ala the "Syrian Wayne Newton" articles, it's really sad to be continuing this any further, this posted article above is some sad defensive response from a person in way over their head. Someone personally, should have told them to let it go by now. Now they are flailing about like fish out of water.

[RaceBannon]

Please ping me on that tape!

[Dave278]

"Had these guys attempted something, would the air marshalls been able to take on 14 of them? The part about them being in such is a big group like that is worrying."

I Know several air marshalls and they are well trained. There may have been more than one air marshall on the plane at the time. People need to be prepared and know that if something like this happens and someone attempts to take over an airplane, it is going to be very ugly. The plane can not be allowed to be turned into a missile like on 9/11.

My Wife and I flew to Florida last month out of Dallas, TX and I told her that I was not going to be a sheep if the crap hit the fan. Be prepared and have an emergency plan.
These are the times we live in. God Bless America....

[Rutles4Ever]

What's to stop a terrorist from becoming a human incendiary device - i.e. setting himself/herself on fire in the cabin? What if five or six terrorists did this at the same time?

I don't put ANYTHING past these guys.

[Dog]

Fyi...