Friday, December 11, 2009

Weeping Openly

"[I]t was extremely tense.  I've never experienced anything like that after flying for company reasons for more than twenty years now.  You can imagine just about everything you can think of has happened on a flight, and some pretty hair raising experiences.  This was like nothing I've ever experienced before.  After being in law enforcement and twenty years in the security industry, this was tension at its highest."   

Another eyewitness interviewed by Houston television station KHOU was Chaplain Keith Robinson, who missed the incident on the tarmac but took the rescheduled flight.  He boarded in spite of being warned by deplaning passengers, one of whom refused to continue the trip because "these Middle Eastern men were taking pictures, wouldn't sit down, and besides that a couple of them were making gestures with their hands as though they were shooting people".  Robinson witnessed "flight attendants were weeping openly"