I called a friend of mine who works about an hour east of Pittsburgh. He is a school administrator. Kids and teachers on the playground saw the plane flying low and erratically. In retrospect, they say it looked as if there was a struggle going on for control of the craft. It went down on the other side of a mountain in Somerset, PA. His wife works as a hospital administrator; they are readying for the injured. Let's hope there are MANY who are just injured. Sounds to me like a heroic pilot took the plane down in a fairly rural area thus avoiding more catastrophe. Reports are NOW saying that it was a Newark-SF flight.
I pray for the pilot, and everyone else (except the terrorist. May he rot in Hell) onboard that plane.
Since many of the terrorists have pilot's licenses and know how to fly these planes, I doubt it was the pilot who took the plane down. More likely, was that the pilot was killed, and maybe some of the passengers took things into their own hands. Either way, someone (or many) are heroes.
Actually, a CNN reporter was on that plane, and phoned her husband and the Justice Department and reported that the passengers and pilot were herded into the back of the airplane. The terrorrists were armed with knives, she said.
I wonder how they got knives on board. They must have had someone at the airport because getting those throught security. Did anybody see In The Line Of Fire with the plastic gun?
With Knives??? how many passangers lives would have been lost if they rushed them? 10? as opposed to 10,000? I had a friend who was on a plane. She sat next to this guy and he pulled out a rather large hunting knife ON THE plane. She just got up and moved, with nothing happened (If it were me, I would report this) Shows you how lax security is at the ports.
This sounds like the Barbara Olsen story; she reportedly was on one of the planes that crashed into the WTC not the one that crashed in PA, theoretically headed toward Camp David.
