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To: Ilaine who wrote (166352)	5/13/2006 6:59:50 PM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794389

why cant the person just buy a ticket to Havana ? Hijacking is not the best way to travel :-)

To: Ilaine who wrote (166352)	5/13/2006 7:05:11 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794389

So what happens if there's an old style hijacker who just wants to to go to Havana, and half the people on the plane want to relive Flight 93 and the other half don't? I found Kinsley's column fascinating. I posted it on another thread earlier. We are faced with a "problem" that we didn't used to have. We know now that following instructions from authorities isn't necessarily the best thing to do, which opens up all sorts of dilemmas. It seems to me that, were it an old style hijacking, the passengers could tell, so it would be up to half the passengers to point this out to the other half. If the pilot announced that we were headed to Cuba, there was only one hijacker, and he wasn't speaking Arabic, for example, the half with its head screwed on straight would have to persuade or subdue the gung ho half. I realize that many people can't recognize languages and can't count, but hopefully a critical mass can.