The Boston Herald is reporting that five Arab men have been identified as suspects in the hijacking of four planes in the United States yesterday.
The disgusting part is how the men apparently lured the pilots out of the cockpit,
Once in the air, the hijackers in one plane began killing flight attendants in order to lure a pilot from the cockpit and seize the plane, said one source.
“They started killing stewardesses in the back of the plane as a diversion. The pilot came back to help and that is how they got into the cockpit,” said the source. The source could not specify whether those events took place on the American Airlines flight that left Logan, or the United Airlines flight. Both planes were plunged into the World Trade Center roughly an hour after they departed Boston.
The suspects had no guns, but used shaving kits and other carry-on luggage to smuggle knife-like weapons made up of plastic handles embedded with razor blades, sources familiar with last night’s developments said. That finding is consistent with reports of a flight attendant’s cell-phone call from one of the doomed airliners.
As if public opinion weren’t already inflamed enough.