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MOCK SECURITY HIJACKING ALARMS INDIANS, INCLUDING SOME OFFICIALS
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: January 17, 1987
LEAD: Indian security forces staged a mock hijacking of a commercial plane by supposed Sikh extremists today in an operation so realistic that for hours several officials said they believed a real hijacking was under way.
Mock plane crash tests emergency services
By MOLLY K. FELLIN
and BETH YOUNG
Collegian Staff Writers
Red lights illuminated the sky of the University Park Airport last night as an emergency call came over the radio. The call reported the downing of a commuter plane involving at least 20 injured passengers.
My spouse] and I and six other fellow [...] employees were on the 8 am flight from Boston to Los Angeles on Tuesday, but we were on the Delta flight [1989], the one out of three 8am flights departing Logan that did not get hijacked. Instead, we were forced to make an emergency landing in Cleveland because there were reports that a bomb or hijacking was taking place on our plane. The pilot had radioed that there was suspicious activity in the cabin since one of the passengers was speaking urgently on his cellphone and ignored repeated flight attendant requests to stop using his cell phone while in flight. Also, there was an irregularity in the passenger manifest because there were two people [with the same middle eastern name] who were listed but only one aboard.
NYDIA GONZALEZ: Okay. It seems like the passengers in coach might not be aware of what�s going right now.
MALE VOICE: These two passengers were from first class?
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
You dont use regularly scheduled airline flights for hijacking drills....at least not in the United States....
Taken at face value, 11th September 2001 saw the maiden Tuesday voyage of United Flight 93 from Newark to San Francisco. In that respect, Flight 93 could not have been a regularly scheduled and recurring flight.
So it wasn't a regular flight after all. You find that interesting swamp, or just goofy?
Originally posted by enigmania
reply to post by OrionStars
I have looked into this before and I'm convinced that all those 911 callers were under the impression that they were cooperating with a "terrorism" drill in some way.
Originally posted by ANOK
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
You dont use regularly scheduled airline flights for hijacking drills....at least not in the United States....
You're right, I can't believe we agree...
Taken at face value, 11th September 2001 saw the maiden Tuesday voyage of United Flight 93 from Newark to San Francisco. In that respect, Flight 93 could not have been a regularly scheduled and recurring flight.
First UA93 Tuesday Flight was on 9-11
So it wasn't a regular flight after all. You find that interesting swamp, or just goofy?