re: #47 Mich-again

Of course the brave passengers who acted in self-defense and put out the fire are heroes. But its silly to think or say “that an alert and courageous citizenry are far more resilient than an isolated extremist.” Not when the “isolated extremist” has a bomb that will work. 250 alert, courageous and resilient citizens would be powerless in the face of a bomb on an airplane that works like it was intended to.

We got lucky this time. Thats not a plan.

I was responding to you saying:

Apologize for it all you like, but it is a stupid thing to say. Other passengers being “resilient” didn’t stop the plane from going down. Give the credit where its due, to incompetent bomb making.

I don’t believe incompetent bomb completely explains how these people survived.