And while that is how the ordeal ended, before it even started, before they boarded the flight, she said she noticed that Akinyela Taylor did not appear to be in a settled state:
Kim Maxwell, Survived Hijacking
"There at the terminal in Corozal. I walked past him, going to the ladies room, and, I noticed him sitting there. His knees or his legs were kind of going up and down, like he was kind of nervous, and, so I went to the ladies room, came back out and looked back, and he was not sitting in the same place. He had actually gotten up from his seat."
"And he was sitting out there, his knee was still shaking, his, look like he might have been on a phone or something. And he just he looked weird, just kind of, like a nervous person."
Jules Vasquez
"His nervous energy caught your attention."
Kim Maxwell, Survived Hijacking
"Absolutely. Oh, yes. Absolutely. He certainly did. Yeah. I couldn't take my eyes off of him."
Of course, by the time he was waiting for that Tropic flight Taylor had already been barred from flying out on a United Airlines flight - and had also been refused entry to Mexico, so he was a desperate man.
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