A question about the Transall C160

"Skysurfer" wrote in message
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tscottme wrote :

Like I said the French hope nothing unusual happens and then are
thoroughly unprepared when it does.

Your sentence doesn't mean anything ...

Do I say that the USA were not prepared to the september the 11th ?

In 1994, a French Airbus was hijacked by islamists who wanted to crash
it on Paris. All terrorist were killed by french spécial forces GIGN
(you know, the "surrending monkeys").
http://www.specialoperations.com/Cou...rism/gign.html

Well done for GIGN.

However, one does wonder how serious these terrorists were about blowing up
the plane over Paris, given that they actually landed the plane first. How
would GIGN have been able to intervene if a plane had simply flown from
Algiers to Paris direct, with the hijackers only taking over after it was
airborne?

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