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...them anyway, even as the airlines announced they were canceling 20% of their scheduled flights and laying off workers by the tens of thousands. Consigned to history are the luxuries of curbside check-in, e-tickets and the right to carry a corkscrew onboard. Peter Hannaford, a passenger aboard United Flight 564 from Denver, wrote in the Washington Times about the pilot's remarks that day: "I want to thank you brave folks for coming out today," the pilot said. "We don't have any new instructions from the Federal Government, so from...
Norman Roca, general manager of the Milner, told the Globe that the four hijackers were Marwan Al-Shehhi, Fayez Ahmed, Mohald Alsheri and Satam al-Suqami. Al Suqami was one of the hijackers aboard Flight 11, while the others were on Flight...
...more armed federal marshals aboard flights. They?ll be in plainclothes, of course, and Bush wasn?t about to give specific numbers. But "Americans will know there?s more of ?em. Crews will know there?s more of ?em. And terrorists will know there?s more...
There are no tidy rules for working through grief. Dr. Larry Hawk, whose sister Kathy Nicosia was a flight attendant aboard American Airlines Flight 11, grieved through working. In the days following the crashes, Hawk manned one of the hundreds of triage units along Manhattan's West Side Highway. But his unit was unique. It was equipped with miniature IV bags, water bowls and dog food to rescue and revive the thousands of pets stranded in crumbling and evacuated buildings in lower Manhattan...
...hijackings have been going on for 40 years. Almost invariably, everybody ends up O.K. The hijacker wants to go to Cuba, or make a political point, or get the world's attention. Never in history had hijackers intentionally turned a passenger plane into a flying bomb, killing everyone aboard, including themselves. Decades of experience teach us that if you simply do what the hijackers say, they'll eventually get tired and give up. That's the rule...