Scope of 9/11 blamed on American Airline's silence, the article says...

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How quickly the public, and idiot pundits like this, forget that prior to 9/11, hijackers wanted a free ride, or money, or asylum, and all training was geared towards cooperation. Simultaneous, multiple hijackings? Not in the lexicon.

Two things become evident; The terrorists didn't have a current copy of the lexicon, nobody could accuse service industry workers and their management of being a think tank.

While it's true that hind sight is 20/20 vision, I bet if you dig the old cockpit doors out of the salvage yard and they could speak as witnesses, they would probably be able to tell a lot of stories about choking geese that lay golden eggs and which FA's put out on overnights.