[Fixit]

From the great summary that you linked to:

... he planned to bludgeon to death the crew of Flight 705, then crash the DC-10 into the terminal of the Memphis Superhub. His own death would secure his family’s future, while the devastating crash would likely destroy FedEx.

Yet on September 11^th, 2001, we were told that it was outside the realm of imagination that someone would hijack an aircraft and use it as a flying bomb...

[Free the USA]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[archy]

...we were told it was outside the realm of imigination that someone would hijack an airliner and try to use it as a bomb.

As with the Libyan 727 with 113 souls aboard shot down by the Israelis over then-Israeli occupied Sinai on 21 Feb 1973 when they believed it had been commandeered and would be crashed as a weapon.

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