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2008-04-21 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Pilot fools hijacker with help from passengers
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Posted by ryuge 2008-04-21 05:57|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Damn!
Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-04-21 06:21||   2008-04-21 06:21|| Front Page Top

#2 So how did he get two pistols on the plane?

Oh. Mauritanian security.
Posted by Bobby 2008-04-21 07:28||   2008-04-21 07:28|| Front Page Top

#3 The 93rd Volunteer Infantry does it again!
Posted by Mike 2008-04-21 08:12||   2008-04-21 08:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Flight attendants then threw boiling water from a coffee machine in his face and at his chest

Expect an extra-judicial writ from some UK court charging these passengers and crew with a hate crime.
Posted by Excalibur 2008-04-21 09:00||   2008-04-21 09:00|| Front Page Top

#5 I've seen this film before.
Posted by Perfesser 2008-04-21 09:53||   2008-04-21 09:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Did they put the boot to this asshole?
Posted by mojo">mojo  2008-04-21 10:52||   2008-04-21 10:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Good job on the crew and passengers! Keep this up and people will stop trying to hijack planes. It isn't worth the humiliation.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2008-04-21 12:01||   2008-04-21 12:01|| Front Page Top

#8 I appreciate the pilot and passengers, but I'd have to be awfully desparate to fly Air Mauritania. You mean an Air Ukraine flight isn't available?
Posted by Steve White">Steve White  2008-04-21 12:43||   2008-04-21 12:43|| Front Page Top

#9 They should have thrown the microwaved-until-blue scrambled eggs on him. That's worse than napalm.
Posted by gorb 2008-04-21 15:46||   2008-04-21 15:46|| Front Page Top

#10 You mean an Air Ukraine flight isn't available?

The plane was in the shop.
Posted by SteveS 2008-04-21 17:06||   2008-04-21 17:06|| Front Page Top

#11 Pity they didn't kill him. That's the message that needs to be sent to every hijacker: the slightest misstep and you'll literally be rent limb from limb by an angry mob determined to inflict as much pain as possible before you can escape into death. They truly need to understand they're considering entering into a VERY high-risk occupation with lethal consequences for failure.
Posted by Thaimble Scourge of the Pixies4707 2008-04-21 18:09||   2008-04-21 18:09|| Front Page Top

#12 A lone gunman brandishing two pistols hijacked the Air Mauritania Boeing 737
Did he hold them sideways like they do in the movies? Makes you so inaccurate that you can't hit the side of a barn?
re#11- they had to assume that he was GSPC or some AlQ franchise. Having one of those guys ALIVE leaves many more dead once we have had a 'talk' with him.
Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical  2008-04-21 22:54||   2008-04-21 22:54|| Front Page Top

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