Passengers' reports: Christmas Terrorist Attack on Northwest Flight 253

at 12/28/09 2:33PM *
Follow these links for deeper information in the form of reports from passengers on board the threatened aircraft:

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1. A passenger seated in the rear provides details and perspective in a full, compelling report, from African boarding to Detroit debriefing.
2. Report about a passenger who says a man at the Amsterdam gate requested Abdulmutallab be allowed to board without a passport.
3. CNN interview (on YouTube) with Dutch passenger Jasper Schuringa, who jumped terrorist Abdulmutallab.
  • dbsmelser
    (this may be the only time I ever link you to the Huffington Post for good reliable insight into anything!!)
    by dbsmelser at 12/28/09 3:13PM
  • bzyabsma
    Wow.
    Here's a link on there now saying that Jasper Schuringa wants more money before he does anymore interviews.
    I guess they'll be going back to "strip searching" people like they started doing right after 9/11...
    by bzyabsma at 12/29/09 11:46AM
  • dbsmelser
    Yeah, Schuringa kinda put a stain on his heroism with that approach.
    by dbsmelser at 12/29/09 12:20PM
  • laurar209
    Here's a question *completely* and shamefully unrelated to the above post, but I have strong confidence that you -- as one of the Infamous Smelser Football Players -- may know the answer. At least Nathan said you might.

    What on earth does "ESPN" stand for?!?
    by laurar209 at 01/08/10 10:58AM
  • laurar209
    And yes, I'm far too lazy to open a new window tab to google the answer. Instead I'm using all the energy I just saved by not doing so by instead writing this rather indepth explanation in an attempt to save my lazy face.
    by laurar209 at 01/08/10 10:59AM
  • dbsmelser
    lol - Hmmm, I didn't know this either, and couldn't come up with any guess at all for the E! Turns out in 1979 it began as the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. Just a few years later it became simply ESPN.
    by dbsmelser at 01/08/10 12:10PM