The second part of Annie Jacobsen’s article about her terrifying flight on Northwest Airlines, during which she witnessed a group of Syrians possibly rehearsing an attack, is now online. She includes statements from flight attendants and pilots who say her story is not an isolated experience: Part II: Terror in the Skies, Again?

Since publishing the first article, I have received dozens of emails from people in the airline industry, including flight attendants, captains and pilots, some of whom I have also spoken with on the telephone. As of Sunday morning, to my knowledge, WWS had received no emails from anyone in the airline industry suggesting that the incident described in my first article did not happen. Here is what some of them are saying, all of it on the record.

Jeanne M. Elliott, Security Coordinator for the Professional Flight Attendants Association (PFAA), which represents the flight attendants of Northwest Airlines, said, By the uneducated eye, and to those who don’t walk in our shoes, it may have been perceived that we were doing nothing, when indeed we were putting the safety and security of those passengers as our first priority.

In a letter sent to WWS, she also states, …the needs of this nation’s flight attendants to adequately perform aviation security functions have been delayed and/or ignored. (Click here to read Elliot’s letter in its entirety.)

Gary Boettcher, Member, Board of Directors, Allied Pilots Association, said, “Folks, I am a Captain with a major airline. I was very involved with the Arming Pilots effort. Your reprint of this airborne event is not a singular nor isolated experience. The terrorists are probing us all the time.”

According to Mark Bogosian, B-757/767 pilot for American Airlines, “The incident you wrote about, and incidents like it, occur more than you like to think. It is a ‘dirty little secret’ that all of us, as crew members, have known about for quite some time.”