To: Asclepius
Grow up - the original story is a myth. The passengers did try to overtake the hijackers, I don't doubt that, but they never made it, and failed. It was worth a shot, but a movie catch-phrase and a battle in the cockpit never happened.
I never thought it did.
195 posted on
08/07/2003 6:41:35 PM PDT by
HitmanLV
(I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
To: HitmanNY
but they never made it, and failed "Failed" to do what?
198 posted on
08/07/2003 6:43:13 PM PDT by
TomB
To: HitmanNY
... The passengers did try to overtake the hijackers ...
Precisely. Hence, no myth. I don't recall anyone ever claiming that the cockpit was breached by the struggling passengers etc.
206 posted on
08/07/2003 6:47:24 PM PDT by
Asclepius
(karma vigilante)
To: HitmanNY
Sounds like you fancy yourself a tough minded defender of truth and will latch on to any detail to burnish your credentials. The story about the passangers reaching the cockpit was never reported as hard truth and I'd bet that most people never even heard it. It was speculation that got a moderate amount of media attention.
I myself was under the impression that it had been debunked soon after 9/11.
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