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![]() Bryan Martin wrote: I don't know if it was the first time, but it happened once back in the early '80s in, I think, Arizona. I believe it was a PSA DC-9. A disgruntled ex-employee snuck a gun on board and forced his way into the cockpit and shot the flight crew and then dove the plane into the ground. Of course in that case the hijacker had a real weapon and about the only thing that might have stopped him was someone else with a gun. Then of course there is the case of the FedEx DC-10 where the crew barely managed to prevent a nut case soon to be ex-employee from doing the same. The 9-11 hijackers weren't even armed. No mater what anybody says, a box cutter is not a weapon. I am not disagreeing with the other stuff you wrote but a box cutter is indeed a very dangerous weapon in the wrong hands and you could easily kill a person with one swing, not to mention multiple attacks. I wonder, if 911 was an inside job and nobody takes box cutters seriously, why wouldn't the perpetrators plant other weapons in the planes so the story would be more believable? |
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