Rumors continued to circulate Monday via e-mail and the Internet about what exactly happened on an AirTran flight at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in November.
At the time, AirTran told Channel 2 Action News that an unruly passenger on a cell phone forced the pilot to take the plane back to the gate. Monday, a passenger said the situation went well beyond that.
“It was extremely intense. I’ve never experienced anything like that,” said passenger Brent Brown.
Brown runs a security consultant company and is a frequent flier. But even for him, he said the events of Flight 297 were disturbing and frightening. As the Houston-bound flight taxied to the runway, several in a group of about a dozen men of Middle Eastern descent started walking the aisles and using their cell phones, Brown said.
Perhaps jihadis have learned from 9/11 that they need more muscle to keep the passengers from counter-attacking.
If true, of course. I'm sure there's a logical explanation that doesn't involve slaughtering infidels.
If this incident on Flight 297 was a dry run, remember it isn't the first phase. Another group already carried out that mission, making it extremely difficult to even ask why several in a group of about a dozen men of Middle Eastern decent would start walking the aisles in a plane during an emergency.
So remember this incident when we have to ask why we didn't connect the dots to prevent another mass-murder of Americans on our own soil.
