The report seems too specific to have been idle speculation ... specific names and seat numbers and on-board source (stewardess). If they did manage to get a gun aboard Flight 11, it means security was even worse than previously reported.
I could not conceive how four to six hijackers could control an airplane with pocketknives. Sounds like someone at the FAA felt the same way.
The FAA person would have had to be an out and out liar to have embellished his account with fake specific details (seat numbers, names, and crew member source).
![]() Satam Al Suqami |
![]() Daniel Lewin |
Lewin was a cofounder and chief technology officer of Akamai Technologies, which develops systems for handling the load generated by high demand web sites.
Yeah, and the death could have just as easily been explained because the passenger had had his throat cut. If some hair-trigger FAA bureaucrat heard that a passenger was killed by a hijacker, absent other information, he might have assumed it was done by a gun -- and reported it as such. A lot of wild stories came out on 9/11. Given the choice between believing that this is another or believing that there has been a massive cover-up in the FAA, you can bet a tin-foil-hat I find it easier to believe it was a wild story. Obviously others find it comforting to see conspiracies everywhere (the truth is out there), but I don't concern myself with the fears of the feeble-minded.