To: Sub-Driver
And how many terrorists lost their nerve? Were any plans aborted due to take-off delays?
2 posted on
08/12/2002 12:53:51 PM PDT by
Shermy
To: Shermy
We will never know. {:-{
To: Shermy
There was an article on FR a few weeks ago about a plane that was scheduled to take off from Dallas/Fort-Worth that had four Arabs on board. The take-off was delayed for a few minutes for normal delay reasons, but it was enough to keep it grounded (It was scheduled for a 9ish EST take-off.) The article said that the Arabs quickly left the plane and were never found.
5 posted on
08/12/2002 12:57:10 PM PDT by
jae471
To: Shermy
13 posted on
08/12/2002 1:31:01 PM PDT by
piasa
To: Shermy
I am pretty certain that other hijacker teams were aboard other aircraft but their flights never left the ground. We will never know how many lives the Bush Administration and the FAA saved by immediately grounding all airplanes that day. Personally I think that they had a whole day of terror planned.
To: Shermy
And how many terrorists lost their nerve? I'm sure quite a few did. I think the Arabs overestimated their side and underestimated ours. I'll bet some were too drunk, too hungover, too scared to even show up to the airports that morning as planned. Some probably went to a nudie bar like the others and completely changed their minds about dying for their religion.
67 posted on
08/12/2002 5:28:30 PM PDT by
FITZ
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