Posted on 12/22/2001 8:38:22 PM PST by classygreeneyedblonde
BOSTON (AP) -- Thierry Dugeon said the first he knew anything was wrong on American Airlines Flight 63 was when he heard a flight attendant 10 rows in front of him cry out, ``I need some help!'' `
`I was there in five seconds, and there were already two or three guys on him,'' Dugeon said Saturday after the Paris-to-Miami-bound jet landed safely at Boston. ``It was like everybody knew what they needed to do. It's pure instinct because it goes so fast. You're not going to think twice.''
Authorities said a man carrying a British passport in the name of Richard Reid may have been carrying explosives in the heel of his shoes and was trying to set fire to one of them when a flight attendant smelled sulfur and intervened.
Dugeon estimated that five to six male passengers subdued Reid -- who resisted at first -- using belts to bind his hands, waist, chest and feet. Two doctors injected him with a sedative from the onboard medical kit. `
`It's three months after Sept. 11. Of course, the first thing you think of is it's something to do with terrorism,'' he said.
Dugeon, a 36-year-old television reporter from Paris, said he was seated in Row 39, 10 rows behind Reid. He said he had noticed the man in the airport when boarding and there was nothing that made Reid stand out.
Dugeon said after the man was subdued, passengers searched him, found the British passport, and questioned him about whether he spoke French, English or Arabic.
Dugeon said Reid told the passengers was Jamaican, but they didn't believe him. A law enforcement source who asked not be identified said Reid was not Middle Eastern.
Over the next two hours, passengers took turns watching the sedated Reid while the crew showed the movie ``Legally Blonde.'' When the plane neared Boston, the captain told them that fighter jets would escort them to Logan. After landing, all the passengers stayed seated until the police came and took the suspect off.
Dugeon described Reid's footwear as hightop-type basketball sneakers, and said he had tried to light the front of his sneakers.
There'll never be another hijacking of an American plane ever again. I bet you Jeremy Glick and the rest of the Flight 93 heroes kicked those terrorist's ass BIG TIME, I know I would thinking about my family and friends, knowing my wife would become a widow as I'm bitch-slapping a terrorist....
The passengers and crew are lucky he wasn't smart enough to buy a Zippo instead of a box of matches.
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I've heard through voice recordings & cell phone transcripts that Glick & Co. really did lay the smackdown on the towelheads.....
hell ya get ghetto on his punk @$$
Can C4 be detonated by a fused blasting cap (as one would w/ TNT). Inquiring minds want to know.
It's pure instinct
That, and a few million people praying for God to protect our country and fight with us against terrorists ... I am convinced that one of the reasons that the Pennsylvania heroes succeeded was because by the time that flight got taken over, millions of people had realized there was a need to fall on their knees, their faces, and pray for God to intervene, having seen the WTC and Pentagon attacks. I am very grateful that the PA plane was detained on the tarmac for 40+ minutes. I am very grateful to those heroes of the PA plane, and certainly add these Paris to Miami passengers to the list of good people rising to a big challenge.
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