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Box cutters killed 3000 people… Dummy
Thats only because there was no one brave. Who is afraid of a box cutter?
Airline hijackings were actually pretty frequent in the '60s and '70s. Some enterprising terrorists even hijacked a cruise liner.
Since then, the common wisdom in all hijackings, and the policy of airlines, was for crew and pax to cooperated with the hijackers as the best way to ensure survival of the greatest number of hostages.
No one on 9-11 anticipated suicide hijackers seeking to kill as many persons as possible, including themselves. So, initially, even after the stabbing death of flight crew, pax and crew cooperated with the hijackers.
Once word of the hijackers' motives had got to the pax of Flight 93, they realized that cooperation wasn't going to save their lives and they voted to take action against the hijackers. The action was ultimately futile, but it wasn't for lack of trying.
"Some enterprising terrorists even hijacked a cruise liner"
Thats putting it kindly. I wouldnt have used the word enterprising. More like idiotic.
I see someone threatening me with a box cutter and I am going to put a foot in his ass. Two people could have easily subdued a hijacker unless he had eyes in the back of his head.
It's very easy to second guess a situation like that when you have all the data.
The pax on those flights didn't know what they were facing until well after the hijackers had taken control.
They didn't know if the hijackers had bombs, which is common, or that They were willing, even wanting to, crash the plane.
I don't think any person can honestly say they know exactly what they would do in a hijacking or hostage situation. There are just too many variables.
As for the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise liner, where the terrorists killed a Jewish man in a wheel chair because of his name, I didn't want to insult the mastermind of the operation, who was directing the terrorist by radio, Nobel Prize winner Yassir Ararat.