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...teenager finds a postcard with hundreds of people at a beach. She waves it over her head and races toward the cockpit, ignoring the flight attendant who asks her to slow down. People chuckle and briefcases and wallets close all over the plane...
...voice belongs to our captain for the evening, who informs us all that things up in the cockpit are a little dull (as if we couldn't have predicted that) and that he'd like to continue his "favorite tradition...
Passengers sit up a little straighter as the showman continues his routine. The captain explains that the cockpit crew has a "special, secret prize for the person who has a picture with the greatest number of people...
...sides so they could not be seen, three groups of commandos in black ski masks and combat fatigues advanced atop three mobile loading ramps. The first unit, led by Favier, headed for the forward right door, opened its lock and stormed inside, guns blazing. Holed up in the cockpit, the hijackers met them with what Favier later described as "a wall of gunfire" through the door. "It was hell in there...
Only one of the hijackers' homemade grenades went off, doing little damage. The gendarmes countered with concussion grenades, which temporarily deafen and blind, allowing them to burst into the cockpit and shoot down the terrorists...