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Posted on 12/26/2009 8:11:25 PM PST by HokieMom
DETROIT (AP) -- They heard a pop that sounded like fireworks. They saw a glow of flame followed by a rush of smoke. And that was enough for passengers on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 to pounce.
From several seats away, Dutch tourist Jasper Schuringa says he jumped to extinguish a fire ignited by a quiet man who just moments before allegedly told passengers his stomach was upset and pulled a blanket over himself. Schuringa said his first thought wasn't to signal a flight attendant or wait for an air marshal to break cover, but rather, "He's trying to blow up the plane."
"I basically reacted directly," Schuringa said Saturday in an interview with CNN. "I didn't think. I just jumped. I just went over there and tried to save the plane."
Aviation safety experts once would have called Schuringa's actions a mistake and cautioned passengers against fighting back during hijackings and other crises in the air. That was before the Sept. 11 attacks and the actions of passengers on United Flight 93, who learned while aloft about the hijacked jets that slammed earlier that day into New York's World Trade Center.
They staged a cabin revolt against the al-Qaida terrorists who had taken control of their flight and died when their plane crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pa. But they succeeded in keeping the jet from destroying another building that day, and their story became legend.
"I don't think people are going to sit back and let somebody kill them in the process of fulfilling their extremist agenda or whatever it happens to be," said Dave Heffernan, who helps oversee self-defense training for commercial flight crews at Valenica Community College in Orlando, Fla. "People have talked about it. They've thought about it. They have a plan of action."
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When I think of how Matthews and others went on and on during the campaign I literally want to hurl all over my keyboard.
...But I actually did get a bit of schradedfrude when I visited with some members of my extended family on Christmas who were big Obama supporters: They were rather silent on the issue of the crumbling economy and the the Health Care debacle.
What a difference eleven months makes.
Agreed, if you could get it on board.
Inky...memba Barry’s ‘shout out’ directed at the Cambridge Police Department for arresting his race baiting little prejudiced minion, “Don’t you know who I am” Prof. Henry Gates? Dear Leader, without any ADMITTED knowledge of the actual incident, stated emphatically that the Police acted “stupidly.”
Sarcasm and ridicule of the PC culture that have brought us to the ooint in time where 70 year old Cathoioc nuns (somebody, anybody...has a an elderly Christian woman evern in the entire history of avionics, taken down an airliner???) are routinely searched, and young, stoney eyed men, packing Qurans (and apparently incindiaries) are waved thru.
Well stated irony Al (and that old gasbag is off air til the 4th of Janauary).
;)PM
If it could pass security, you could make a fortune selling them.
Thanks Jasper!
You know they are going to spin this one big time with their big lies Rahm keeps in his special lock box. Hillary passed the lock box down to Rahm.
wonder how long before MSM and the pretender at the house claim this is proof that W’s policy on terrorism did not work
“The fellow passengers acted stupidly”
Huh? Explain this.
“After United 93, Air Travelers React to Threats”
Somebody has to!!!!!!
“The fellow passengers acted stupidly”
“How do you know this to be true? You were on board, and saw the whole thing?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
I think it is a comment referring to another incident, no? Think biergarden summit on the east lawn.
Wow! Excellent work, devolve.
Hoss, read the rest of the comments, you’ll figure it out.
Yes, what a difference 11 months, bribes, back room deals, cabinet members who don’t pay taxes, etc, etc. My brother-in-law has a lot of voter remorse....I asked him a short time ago how that “Hope and Change” was working out for him. When I meet the Lord, that is one thing I will NOT HAVE TO ANSWER FOR....I and my husband DID NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA. In fact we were going to vote at all that is until Sarah Palin came on the scene. She is the only reason we voted for McShame.
Yes, what a difference 11 months, bribes, back room deals, cabinet members who don’t pay taxes, etc, etc make. My brother-in-law has a lot of voter remorse....I asked him a short time ago how that “Hope and Change” was working out for him. When I meet the LORD, that is one thing I will NOT HAVE TO ANSWER FOR....I and my husband DID NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA. In fact we were not going to vote at all that is until Sarah Palin came on the scene. She is the only reason we voted for McShame.
Bump for later Sunday reading
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