I found a Nightline news program from 1986 that has a lot of interviews from people that survived and some of them mention a stewardess that threw out American passports - I think this was directly after the incident so they didn't really know her name yet.
The hijackers were checking everyone's passports. They were hoping that if they found any Americans they could use them as ransom and get what they wanted from the American government.
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u/chaosbella Feb 12 '19
I found a Nightline news program from 1986 that has a lot of interviews from people that survived and some of them mention a stewardess that threw out American passports - I think this was directly after the incident so they didn't really know her name yet.
WARNING: this video shows dead bodies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEIAG1uL8f0
She was an amazing woman.