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Post by shred on Jul 2, 2013 10:49:00 GMT -5
The plane had been hijacked by men who wanted to fly it into the Eiffel Tower, they had murdered 3 passengers and wanted the plane to be refuelled in Marseille, it was stormed by GIGN and the four terrorists were killed. The A300 was written off. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_8969
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Post by bob0627 on Jul 2, 2013 12:30:32 GMT -5
That's the story of the entire world before 9/11? Nothing else happened?
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Post by shred on Jul 2, 2013 13:02:00 GMT -5
Crucial point being that an Islamic terrorist incident that occurred in which the aim was to deliberately crash a plane into a building (in this case the Eiffel Tower) to destroy it.
IN 1994. That's 7 years notice to the world's airlines to do more to prevent Hijackers taking cockpit control. If the lesson of '94 had been learned, the cockpit hijackings of 11/9/2001 (day/month/year) couldn't have happened.
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Post by bob0627 on Jul 2, 2013 14:06:39 GMT -5
If that's the case, your title for this thread is quite an overreach. As to hijackings, there were many before 9/11 where a hijacker took over the cockpit, not just that one. So there really are many other precedents the airline industry could have used to try to prevent hijackings before 9/11.
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Post by shred on Jul 6, 2013 14:28:25 GMT -5
Agreed, there were many hijackings before 11/9/2001. There were also suicide bombings before that day including the attack on the USS Cole. The airline industry was criminally negligent in failing to prevent the hijackings of airliners on 9/11. Your airport security should have prevented those nineteen men from boarding the planes with weapons. The cockpit doors should have been locked in flight.
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Post by thelion on Nov 10, 2013 21:48:47 GMT -5
"I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile," national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said Thursday.
National Security Adviser and later SecState, unaware of the RECENT and very public historical fact described in the OP.
And that's the sort of bungling incompetent GW Bush preferred to surround himself with, probably to make his own incompetence less obvious.
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Post by shred on Nov 11, 2013 4:31:53 GMT -5
Rick Rescorla predicted that the next attack against the twin towers would be from the air, but being an old Soldier who had served in both the British Army (Parachute Regiment) and the US Army (1st Cavalry), he understood tactics and how to strike at targets more than the Politicians did. He applied his knowledge to try to make the WTC safer, he also recommended to Morgan Stanley that they relocate, because of the terrorist threat. If he'd been listened to the twin towers might still be standing and the thugs who hijacked the planes could have been arrested at the airport for trying to board planes with weapons.
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Post by thelion on Nov 11, 2013 15:53:21 GMT -5
Sounds like the difference between Rice and Rescoria defines the difference between incompetence and competence, the difference between academia and experience.
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Post by shred on Nov 12, 2013 7:23:16 GMT -5
Precisely. Rescorla had fought in wars, been shot at, shot back. Rice hadn't. Nor had Bush. Rescorla saved most of Morgan Stanley's 2687 employees refusing to leave until the last one was out. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla
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