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i cant belive the planes were hijacked by letter openers and knives, and no-one fought back? a whole plane vs some terrorist with knives, comon, or im missing something here.... fill me in
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OK, let's define a "whole plane", say one of those planes had 60 passengers, half are women, so that leaves a possible 30 men, half of those are probably too old or too young to do anything, that leaves 15 men, and half of those are sheep, trained by our government to be the victim, so that leaves say 7 men, and half of those are just cowards to begin with, so you might have had 3 or 4 full grown men that might have done soemthing if they knew they were going to die anyway, which they didn't. So a small group (even 3 or 4) of highly motivated terrorists with knives can easily control a "whole plane". Everything was planned very well by the terrorists, small passenger load, large fuel load, etc. I'm just surprised it hasn't happened before. About the knives, they don't even have to be metal, they could be like the "CIA letter-openers" I have that can be sharpened enough to easily kill/cut someone but will not set off a metal detector.
I can see that it was very easy for 3 or 4 highly aggressive terrorists that have already shown that they will kill to control a whole plane of people, that don't know they are going to die anyway, or that they are going to be used to kill even more people.
It's kind of a one-time shot though, if they tried it again, all the passengers would fight as they know what might happen (all passengers killed anyway and more deaths if they do nothing).