People Fight Back on Plane at Dulles Airport (breaking news)

Sept. 12, 2006,

[khnyny]

A just saw a report that said folks on an airplane at Dulles airport struggled with someone who attempted to open a door mid-flight.....

[Cobra64]

You should be banned for #149, at least not allowed to post pictures until screened.

Hey, I posted it a few weeks ago and a nanny FReeper squealed. The post was pulled. So I try to keep it under wraps, which is difficult given her size.

[California74]

oh... that's right! This thread has a topic!

Here's a link to the latest:
http://www.nbc4.com/news/9834422/detail.html

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CHANTILLY, Va. -- A man wearing military fatigues and throwing punches into the air tried to open the exit door of a jet during a cross-country flight on Tuesday night, airline officials and passengers said.

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(Ken) Wolfenberger said he heard a flight attendant yell for help and tell the man, "Sir, get your hand off the handle."

(read article at link)

[Colorado Doug]

Ya'll are killin' me! I'm a Northerner n'all, but ain't it y'all?

The correct reply is: "Damn Yankee"
Heh heh

[MyDogAllah]

[the fat broad on the F15]

That wasn't an F-15. It was an F-22 Raptor.

[GoLightly]

FOTFL

[Captain Beyond]

Thanks for link. Once again Hurray for the passengers to have the courage to take down the nut job.

[MyDogAllah]

[The correct reply is: "Damn Yankee"]

"Damnyankee" is two words?

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Jesus replies; " I did help you !! I sent you a police car, a boat, and a helicopter !!"

Zig Ziglar spoke at Second Baptist in Houston quite a few years ago and told that story. I still grin every time I think about it.

[Nathan Zachary]

"Or if the plane is full of a bunch of religious freaks who think they can pray their way out of trouble. I've got lots of relatives like that." So, if you pray, you are a "religious freak" in your mind?

You'd better "hope", nod to Gaia, (or whatever you non- religious freaks do) that you don't get sick with deadly disease, least all those "freaks" come and pray for you.

[Thinkin' Gal]

And remember...

If the muumuu don't fit
You must not sit.

[fabian]

that's funny...I thought he was being sarcastic.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

[USMMA_83]

There is a similar Hindu story like this...

A young boy goes to a guru, deep in the forest, to learn about God. Many years later he know the secret...he is God, We are all God. He takes leave of his Guru, and head back to city life. On the way, on his path, way down the path...he sees an elephant. The elephant is on the path too...walking towards him.

He says to himself, "I am God, the elephant will get out of the way." The elephant tumphants, and the man does not move...both heading towards each other. Eventually, the elephant tramples the man, and the man hobbles back to the Guru.

"But", he said to the guru, "you said I was God." The guru looked up at him and said, "Why did you not recognize God in everything else. He told you to move too."

[musicman]

Thank you both for replying to my post.

JustaDumbBlonde, I do like the joke also, and it hits home with a lot of people.

USMMA_83, that's a neat twist on the joke also, with a lesson there too.

[1066AD]

I remember watching Fox News' Brit Hume in the 2000 election reacting to the reporter (Cameron ?) who was explaining "Y'all" was actually singular; Brit shook his head and asked so what was the plural ?
Answer, well of course it's "All y'all".
He cracked up :)

[USMMA_83]

FYI...the hindu story is about 1000+ years old.

[dixiechick2000]

I think it depends on the Scots Irish influence.

I've known people to say, both, y'all, and ya all.
But, the ya all is rare.
It's mostly the older people, with deep Scots
Irish roots, who say "ya all".


That's been my experience, at least.
So, take it FWIW.

[Redcloak]

Thailand is the key.





...or so I've been told.

[Question_Assumptions]

It has nothing to do with where Middle Eastern men sit on the plan and everything to do with how the passengers react when any passenger, regardless of ethnicity, tries to force their way into the cockpit, threatens the plane's crew, or tries to light a fuse on their shoe. You'll notice how far the "shoe bomber" got before he was subdued. Before 9/11, the standard advice was to cooperate with hijackers because they'd make demands and then let you go. After 9/11, everyone now realizes that cooperation will likely mean that they'll die. For all their bravery, and they were true heroes, if the Flight 93 passengers had reacted with the same resolve when the hijackers attacked the crew, they probably would never have gotten control over the plane. That they believed cooperation would keep them alive prevented them from doing anything and everything to stop the hijackers. That won't happen again.

[Colorado Doug]

"Damnyankee" is two words?

ROFLOL