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You can fight back without the personal attacks. And btw, I don't think anybody else needs to do it either ... no matter how tempting it is.

How 'bout we get back on the subject? So, why do you think the crew didn't contact ground control? Whoever wrote this must have been up for 72 hours - they wouldn't contact ground control - it would be air traffic control.

And why didn't they dial in the hijack code into the transponder? Oh yes. They were DEAD.

I haven't seen any acknowledgement of this in your responses here.

Bootless: "So, why do you think the crew didn't contact ground control? Whoever wrote this must have been up for 72 hours - they wouldn't contact ground control - it would be air traffic control.

And why didn't they dial in the hijack code into the transponder? Oh yes. They were DEAD."

I don't know, but I would think that out of 4 crews, 8 pilots, one of those guys would have been able to slip in a code or make some kind of alert, don't you? The odds of those guys subduing them immediately in the cockpit seems rather high. And making a mistake of "Air traffic control" versus saying "ground control" seems forgivable, especially when you consider the article was written by a foreign journalist.

So tell me, do you threaten just anyone with abuse after just skimming the previous posts?