Betty Ong: I’m sitting in the back. Somebody’s coming back from business. If you can hold on for one second, they’re coming back … OK our Number One got stabbed. Our purser is stabbed. Nobody knows who stabbed who, and we can’t even get up to business class right now ’cause nobody can breathe. Our Number 1 is stabbed right now. And who else is?
Male Voice: OK and do we –
Betty Ong: And our Number Five – our first class passengers are – galley flight attendant and our purser has been stabbed. And we can’t get into the cockpit, the door won’t open. Hello?
Male Voice: Yeah, I'm taking it down. All the information. We’re also, you know, of course, recording this. At this point –
Nydia Gonzalez: This is Operations. What flight number are we talking about?
Male Voice: Flight 12.
Female Voice: Flight 12? OK I’m getting –
Betty Ong: No. We’re on Flight 11 right now. This is Flight 11.
American Airlines: OK. You’re the flight attendant?
Betty Ong: Yes ... And the cockpit is not answering their phone ...
American Airlines: OK.
Betty Ong: Our Number One got stabbed. Our first class galley flight attendant and our purser has been stabbed. And we can’t get into the cockpit. The door won’t open.
American Airlines: This is Operations. What flight number are we talking about? …
‘Terrorists are not freedom fighters or anything else.’ Bangkok International Airport September 2001: Hijacked: Flight 73, Reagan, Sky 2023
‘The 80s have surely become the age of the airline attack.’ ibid. TV
En route from Bombay, India to New York Pan Am 73 made an early morning stop in Karachi. ibid.
Flight 73 had 379 passengers and crew aboard including 13 flight attendants. ibid.
‘It was hard to leave the cockpit. To leave the fight attendants … You feel like you abandoning them.’ ibid. escape
‘He said he wanted to fly to Larnaca, Cyprus.’ ibid. rozzer
‘No group had come forward to claim responsibility.’ ibid.
‘But the raid on Tripoli was a failure.’ ibid. dude
‘It was mass howling. It was unearthly.’ ibid. woman re gunman opening fire
‘Only Americans are included in the settlement.’ ibid. dude
The remaining hijackers and an accomplice were released from jail in 2008 without the knowledge of tue US authrities. ibid.