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On 9/11 4 aircraft were hijacked, only 1 had passengers resist. For the sake of argument if we take this as a representative sample, there's only a 25% resist r
by a_c_s 10y ago
On 9/11 4 aircraft were hijacked, only 1 had passengers resist. For the sake of argument if we take this as a representative sample, there's only a 25% resist rate: very pretty thin evidence to argue that a fundamental behavior shift has taken place.
- ceejayoz 10y ago> On 9/11 4 aircraft were hijacked, only 1 had passengers resist. Few had much inkling 9/11 was a terror attack until the second flight hit WTC at 9:03 am, so it's really one of two. The Pentagon flight hit at 9:37 am and passengers weren't aware of the WTC attacks until Barbara Olson's call between 9:16 and 9:26. ~10 minutes isn't much time to process, plan, and react. Post-9/11, attackers in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_failed_shoe_bomb_attempt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_failed_shoe_bomb_attempt and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Airlines_Flight_253 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Airlines_Flight_253 were both subdued rapidly by passengers, as have a variety of disruptive/suspicious non-terror incidents.