Bear with me... I’m still looking for evidence that other passengers participated in the takedown. Here’s the very latest in an (inaccurate) New York Times headline
“Passengers Took Plane’s Survival Into Own Hands”
By now we should all be fully aware of the NYT commitment to truthfulness and accuracy, right? Towards the bottom of the story the Times admits that it was a single passenger that acted:
“One passenger who was sitting in the same row as Mr. Abdulmutallab, but on the right side of the plane, apparently hurled himself across a middle row of four seats to tackle him. The passenger who hurtled across the aisle was Jasper Schuringa, a filmmaker from Amsterdam, a friend of Mr. Schuringa said Saturday. A senior airline executive said that flight attendants also jumped in.”
Good to hear that the airline claims that flight attendants also became involved. I would hate to learn that they cowered behind their curtains.
In any event, my argument is with those who rashly assumed it was Americans who grabbed the terrorist and saved the day. In this case one very impressive Dutchman is due our praise and admiration.