Originally Posted by exerda

I'm not generous enough to grant Kippie and Chertoff the scenario of all 8 planes, all 8 being 747s, and all 8 being at 100% load factor, and of course all 8 teams carrying out their attacks successfully and near-enough simultaneously to make the plan work, though. That's not realistic.

And, of course, we're still under 3k at that point... technically "thousands" (as in, more than a single thousand), but hardly the connotation of the term, either.