“All it takes is for one guy to shoot out a window. The end.”
Hahahahah!
No.
Only in Hollywood.
In reality the window, with a small hole in it, will make a loud whistling sound, the masks will drop down, and the plane will decend to a safe altitude. Big freaking deal.
Thanks for your response.
Glad to be wrong on that, if I was.
When I was a kid growing up on Long Island, about 40 miles east of New York City, a neighbor down the road was a pilot for Pan Am.
He was one of the first to fly the Pan Am 747 between New York and London.
At the time, there were a number of hijackings of U.S. aircraft in Europe by Middle Eastern terrorists.
We lived on a hill, down a long winding driveway. One day, my father and I were near the bottom of our driveway, and the Pan Am pilot and his wife drove by.
He stopped, and we discussed the recent hijackings in Europe.
The pilot carried a gun in the cockpit and said, “If they (the hijackers) try to come into my cockpit, I’ll fu—ing shoot them!”
His wife said, “But Ed, what about the fuselage?”
“F-— the fuselage!” he shouted. The man was a character...with character.