Wow. Great post. Gave me goose bumps reading it.

I am e-mailing this far and wide.

it's good to hear the Truth

A good friend of mine is pilot for SW Airlines, he is flying out of KHOU for KLAX today. While speaking with him last night I sugested that instead of saying something like SW flight XXX rolling after getting clerance, they say SW flight XXX LET'S ROLL

I asked what kinda plans he had if some jerk *ff tried any mischief on his aircraft to that he replied, " A snap roll in 737 should take care of 'em"

Great post!

Great post!

I heard a pilot on one of the newscasts late last week tell of his plans. Immediate depressurization of the cabin, then "everyone better have their seatbelts on cause we are going for one hell of a roller coaster ride!"

Everyboby take a fist sized rock...

BTTT

Emailed to all my contacts and spread throughout the office!! This is great.

If any of those 200 passengers knows just a little bit about unarmed combat, there shouldn't be much for "the authorities" to take care of when the plane lands.

[Some people still think guns are the only deadly weapons...(sigh)]

Great post, all pilots should be repeating this on all flights.

Stab them with your ink pens! The sheer number of non-terrorists to terrorists on board should allow the good guys to just pile on the bad guys literally then crush them in the aisles.

"... A snap roll in 737 should take care of 'em..."

Spot-on, john! All Commercial pilots know how to do it, and that has been the 'underground' message to all of them.

Most people don't realize that all Commercial Jets can easily perform aerobatic maneuvers, albeit in slow-motion. Anybody not belted-in tends to get scrambled!

They don't do it often because it tends to beat-the-hell out of the cabin attendants....FRegards

Great post!

Those pilots have it right.

Now I am certain that we will have a number of bleeding hearts who will object but this is a start.

Stay well - stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

This time, however, no lobbying efforts must be allowed to prevent airport security from getting the reforms that are needed: federal operation, rigorous training, decent pay and no foreign nationals eligible for employment.

Having federal government take over airport security does absolutely nothing to ease my concerns. In fact, it heightens them. We'll end up with another bloated bureacracy, airport security manuals the thickness of the tax code and the all incompetence and ineffectiveness the federal government is famous for. An exception to this might be if the military is given the authority over this matter--but even then, apply the bloated bureacracy item.

If we need more law enforcement personnel involved in airport security, I'd rather it be local or state police forces.

I don't want to see knee jerk reactions and laws enacted which further restrict our freedoms but would have done nothing to stop the recent attacks. The only possible security measure that might have stopped these evil men would have been an armed sky marshall or an armed pilot or flight steward. More rigorous FBI and CIA intelligence might have stopped it in the first place, but as is being discovered, these men knew all the tricks in hiding and assimilating so I don't blame the FBI and CIA.

"Whoever would sacrifice freedom for the sake of security, will end up having neither."

In lieu of a fist sized rock should that too be banned from aircraft might I suggest about forty or fifty dollars in quarters and a sock for an exellent improvised blackjack.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

Up til last Tuesday, Airline personnel were trained to go along with the hijackers, just like Americans are asked to go along with muggers, rapists and bank robbers. This has got to change.

improvised blackjack

I like it . I was thinking along the lines of a bowling ball.

Bump.