Word: shoes
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...talking to him, saying, 'Excuse me,' but he just ignored me. I leaned in and said, 'What are you doing?'" As she pulled at him, he turned, giving her a glimpse of what he was hiding. What she saw terrified her. "He's got the shoe off, between his legs. All I see is the wiring and the match. The match was lit," she says. Twice she grabbed him, twice he pushed her away, the second time so hard she fell against an armrest across the aisle. I'm going to die, she thought...
Jones had seen and heard none of this--when Moutardier came running back yelling, "Get him! Go!" Moutardier was so flustered, she said nothing about the shoe and the match. Jones rushed out and quickly realized what was going on. Reid's back was turned away from the aisle, but "you could just tell he was very intent on doing something. I didn't talk to him or ask him what he was doing. I just knew it in my mind," she says. "I yelled, 'Stop it!' and grabbed him around the upper body. I tried to pull...
...attendants concede that the crew made some mistakes. They didn't retrieve Reid's shoes until 30 minutes after he was subdued. Then the crew's first reserve officer brought the shoes into the cockpit. Thinking there was a knife inside, he found instead a wire protruding--and a burn mark. Hastily, the crew put both shoes in a safe place reserved on all planes for bomb disposal. The FBI later reported that one shoe had enough plastic explosives to blow a hole in the plane's fuselage. "Yet nobody went and curled up into a ball in the corner...
...airport even before I had a job and just hang out. I like the smell of jet fuel." But after Sept. 11, Jones started thinking about another career. She began taking college courses with the idea of getting her degree and becoming a paralegal. After the shoe-bomber incident, she desperately wanted to quit and found herself withdrawing from friends, spending most of her days sleeping. At night, she would have bad dreams and wake up anxious, believing she had heard footsteps in the house. "You'd think you'd have more of an appreciation for life, appreciate friends...
Since the shoe-bomber flight in December, American Airlines has offered a self-defense course; neither Jones nor Moutardier has attended the training. But Jones has devised her own safety rules. Instead of walking from the front of the plane to the back when she checks to see if seat belts are fastened, she now walks aft to forward because "I can see better what people are doing with their hands." She scrutinizes passengers more closely. On an international flight, a man who spoke no English got up before the plane taxied into the gate, and started walking into...