ferris209 said:

timdiggerm said:

ferris209 said:

Why did the phones belonging to passengers still ring hours after it was lost and why could they not answer?

This part, at least, is not mysterious. The hijackers collected everyone's phones, but did not go through the tedious effort of turning them all off.

Although it does imply they were receiving cell service, no?

Still, how did they manage to collect over 200 phones from people without one single text message or phone call being made?

Guns, I assume.

I agree, it's not a totally explains-everything solution, but it works well enough for me.