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Hijacked pilots may have been murdered before crashes
Electronic Telegraph ^
| September 11, 2001
Posted on 09/11/2001 5:15:20 PM PDT by Map Kernow
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It's not just sloppiness at our airports. It's a matter of actual terrorist infiltration, IMHO.
To: Map Kernow
It's not just sloppiness at our airports. It's a matter of actual terrorist infiltration, IMHO.A lot of people seem to think they may have been able to get in around security. Sounds logical.
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posted on
09/11/2001 5:19:32 PM PDT
by
Mark17
To: Map Kernow
I would like to know how they got passed airport security with guns or knives in all these different airports
To: Map Kernow
Step One: Get rid of all foreign security personnel at Airports, and all foreigner employees who have access to the planes or runways. This is got to be how they got through security.
To: Map Kernow
Pilots murdered before crashes? Duh! This is the dumbest story I've seen all day. What US pilot, with a gun to his head, is going to crash into the WTC instead of ditch the plane into the ground or ocean at a 90 degree dive in order to save some lives?
To: Mark17
Only some need to have gotten around security. The others just need to have bought tickets as a group of businessmen, or a family. The biggest problem would be operational security.
The oddest thing is they managed to do this from multiple airports.
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posted on
09/11/2001 5:22:22 PM PDT
by
lepton
To: patlaw_guy
The PA plane was probably shot down by US intelligence
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posted on
09/11/2001 5:23:00 PM PDT
by
ventana
To: Map Kernow
Why do they think 6 terrorists on an airplane would need more than knives to kill the crew and take control? The answer to this is to arm pilots with guns.
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posted on
09/11/2001 5:23:24 PM PDT
by
tbeatty
To: Map Kernow
As experts pieced together their audacious operation, it was clear that no pilot would have steered their plane into a building packed with people. Golly, I'm not an "expert," yet I still figured that out all by myself immediately after the second crash. And the European media calls Dubya "dumb." This report is just stupid, and all to typical.
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posted on
09/11/2001 5:23:29 PM PDT
by
seamus
To: classygreeneyedblonde
I would like to know how they got passed airport security with guns or knives in all these different airports It looks like they used knives -- probably pretty easy to come up with tough ceramic knives that hide easily in most any object and don't show up on xray.
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posted on
09/11/2001 5:24:56 PM PDT
by
jlogajan
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To: classygreeneyedblonde
I would like to know how they got passed airport security with guns or knives in all these different airportsAirport security sux. That's the problem.
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posted on
09/11/2001 5:26:47 PM PDT
by
dbbeebs
To: holyscroller
Next time you fly check out the food service and cleaning crews, especially on the East Coast. Find a Kelly or a Johnson among the workers. Find an African American or a Goldberg, you won't, you won't. For that matter, check the English capability of most security personnel at JFK,EWR,,LGA,etc., few sound like they are from Dallas or Boston.
To: ventana Map Kernow Mark17 classygreeneyedblonde holyscroller patlaw_guy lepton tbeatty seamus
"The PA plane was probably shot down by US intelligence"
Armey said that the report on that plane was "CLASSIFIED"
I THINK the Air Force shot it down.
To: all
First thing this morning, I began to wonder about TWA 800, the Egypt Air flight, and if I remember correctly, wasn't the Swiss Air flight a complete fatality too?
Makes one wonder if WE HAD to shoot those planes down?
To: patlaw_guy
Patlaw, that's exactly what the story implied.
To: ventana
No! He was the only one that realized all of his options - he took the plane out of the equasion. Th passengers as well as himself were already dead. He minimized the destruction.
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posted on
09/11/2001 5:32:07 PM PDT
by
Archer24
To: libertarian_usa
Either that or the pilots pulled the fire handles, same result.
To: classygreeneyedblonde
One plausible explanation of how to get weapons onto an aircraft is that they were brought in on food/beverage carts, or by aircraft cleaning staff. Not only knives were reported in use, but also box-strippers (razored blades that with hand covers that fit easily into ones hand like a hammer).
To: Map Kernow
It might also be necessary to prevent calls from being made from and to aircraft. It is rumored that the terrorists coordinated their actions by phone between the aircraft.
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posted on
09/11/2001 5:38:14 PM PDT
by
Bush2000
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