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...debris and fiberglass particles filled the cabin, blown about by the intrusive wind, terror gripped the passengers. Pushing away from the gaping hole, a few grabbed their hand baggage and irrationally told flight attendants they wanted to leave the plane. Stewardess Catherine Erickson, 30, scooped up some linen napkins and handed them out to passengers whose legs and feet were bleeding...
...have six passengers and a stewardess," said Louis Daddario, administrator on duty at Boston City Hospital. "As far as we know, they are all minor injuries, basically bumps, bruises, their shoulder hurts...
...insertion of a subplot focusing on a Jewish couple who had been held in a Nazi concentration camp during the second world war was just too much to take. The airline stewardess, Ingrid (Hanna Schygulla), is asked by the hijackers to select Jewish-sounding names from the collection of passenger's passports. She refuses, saying, "Don't you know I'm German...I won't do it again!" The director goes on to demonstrate that he is aiming at the lowest common denominator of human intelligence when he shows us a close-up of a Jewish passenger's tatooed forearm...
...enjoy my drink when the plane lurched violently up and to the right, causing the man next to me to dump his Bloody Mary in my lap. I did not have time to scream or react in any way before the plane jerked down to the left, causing a stewardess to fall across the row of seats in front...
...them was Dorothy Sullivan of Chicago, who described the tension during the seemingly endless ordeal. One of the original hijackers had been soft-spoken, the other brutal, she said, and the latter liked to go up and down the aisle thumping passengers on the head. Several passengers recalled that Stewardess Uli Derickson, of Newton, N.J., had stood up to the hijackers. Said she, speaking of her passengers: "They're doing what you tell them to do. Why do you keep beating them up?" The released passengers also noted that, before leaving the plane, they were relieved of their cash...