Well, no security measures help against loonies, they usually cause no suspicions while passing security check... If he was not a Muslim, then I tend to think that he was a regular psychopath or a "heavy" madman.
I'm surprised that no one here has yet mentioned that QUANTAS grounded ten aircraft in Sydney today, MARGO . . . what was up with that?
And, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, the hijacker, David Robinson:
His boss said he was highly intelligent, friendly and passionate.
His former workmates just could not understand, calling him a "very likeable kind of person".
He even mowed his 80-year-old neighbour's lawns when he was away.
And two days before Thursday's drama on Flight 1737 there were no signs that anything was troubling him.
At lunch with two former workmates, he was "just fantastic".
"He was completely normal. We had a few jokes," said Ashutosh Kapse.
Until six weeks ago David Mark Robinson worked as a senior computer engineer with Ipex Computers in Melbourne.
He had been there six years, and told his employers he was only resigning because he wanted to visit his ailing father in his native England and to relocate to Queensland.
This news finally made it to the Boston Globe.
I rather wonder if a native speaker of English wrote that dispatch . . .
LOL! It is "we ain't saying NOTHING" speak - and as such as a universal language, which needs special tools to decode.
Jeez, those Tamworth types must be scary. To cause 10 planes to be grounded. Bit like Tasmanians really! Lots of FLK's there!
'K, i'll bite, whas a FLK, and how do i get one . . .
Funny Looking Kid - have bad luck - or be fruitful with too much consanguinity.
"Maw, everbody thayth i talkth funny . . . how come i talkth funny?'
"Son, i don't know, i've got work to do, ask someone else . . . "
"Paw, how come everbody thayth i talkth funny?"
"You lookin' fer trouble, boy? Go bother somebody else . . ."
"Geethe, don't nobody wanna talk to me . . . hey, i know . . ."
"Uncle Jim, how come everbody thayth i talkth funny . . . "
"Thut yer damned mouth kid, afore ye gitth uth both in hot water . . . "
