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Averted Disaster Captured on Film
New York Times ^ | Jean-Claude Joly

Posted on 12/30/2001 7:37:11 AM PST by RippleFire

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Jean-Claude Joly/SIPA PRESS
Jean-Claude Joly was sitting a few rows back from Richard C. Reid on Flight 63 from Paris to Miami on Dec. 22 when the plane erupted in confusion after Mr. Reid tried to light a fuse coming out of his sneaker. Mr. Joly grabbed his camera and captured the scene in these photos, purchased by The New York Times after they were made available on Friday. In this first picture, about eight passengers used belts and earphone wires to tie up Mr. Reid. They would later say they thought he was drunk.


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Click the "Next" link above to see the rest of the slide show. Not really too dramatic, but the sheer ordinariness of these photos gives one pause.
1 posted on 12/30/2001 7:37:13 AM PST by RippleFire
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To: RippleFire
Cool thanks for the post. Those are more then likely the only pictures from this flight and they show our American Heros in action.
2 posted on 12/30/2001 7:53:06 AM PST by Mixer
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To: RippleFire
Great post. Since no airlines seem to get Armed Guards on any flights, I propose that any heroes like those pictured here, automatically get one year's Federal Marshals Pay for doing the job.

All kidding aside, these pictures show what happens when ordinary American people are faced with a do or die situation. Heroes one and all, just like Flight 93. Also, philosophically, this is secondary proof of the validity of Second Amendment rights, if you apply the heroic behavior on those flights to the streets and neighborhoods of America.

3 posted on 12/30/2001 8:01:02 AM PST by BOBTHENAILER
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Thanks for the great pic of the Osama "Mini Me Wanna Be" getting dogpiled by the passengers.

More American heros in action. BUMP

4 posted on 12/30/2001 8:12:08 AM PST by cake_crumb
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To: RippleFire
Thanks for that post! I'd have to say that before I found Free Republic, I didn't pay as much attention to the details of everyday life as I should have. It's just like when you're being a tourist somewhere and you feel the urge to take a photo but you think- nah! I'll remember that (or whatever) and then you later lament the fact. I've saved every photo concerning 9/11 I could find and I'm glad. Even a year from now I'll be looking at that and looking back on the threads from 9/11 and realizing how intense that was and why we made the decisions we did and how if you weren't there or didn't see it...You know what I mean.

I found the first picture amusing, there's the one guy to the left of center that is just leaning on the seat back with his arms crossed like he was watching ducklings swim in a pond or something and then there's the picture of the pro basketball player leaning over Reid and you sort of imagine him saying "I'm gonna slam dunk you into the toilet if you try to set that other Air Jordan on fire".

5 posted on 12/30/2001 10:58:03 AM PST by Prodigal Son
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