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A call to arms for airline passengers, Anti-hijacking movement takes flight
SF Chronicle ^
| 11-24-01
| Janine DeFao
Posted on 11/24/2001 4:24:05 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:39:06 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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If his plane is hijacked, Don Detrich wants the attackers to know he will consider it his "patriotic duty to get up from my seat and kick ass."
As founder of the fledgling Flight Watch Hijacking Resistance League, Detrich has urged airline passengers to fight back, using weapons from ballpoint pens to beverage carts. As his message has spread from his Web site to media outlets from coast to coast, he's heard from dozens of potential recruits eager to get on board.
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Yes, pilots should have guns but since they are not likely to get this freedom once more any plan is better than no plan at all.
Neither is it clear to me how that flight really went down.
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