[sam_paine]

So that Egypt Air incident where one of the pilots "committed suicide...." Why wouldn't an AlQueerda sleeper agent just get a pilot's license and carry on a gun as the first officer and shoot the pilot? No mess needed to hijack a plane. No mess with ground security.

I'm a big fan of more-guns-less-crime, but is that really what this will bring? How does that hole get addressed?

[tahiti]

"How does that hole get addressed?"

By removal of the unconstitutional federal legislation that prohibits a private property owner (airlines) from encouraging their customers do assist them in the security of flying on their aircraft.

10, 30, 100 armed passengers will be just the deterrent needed against a hijacking.

Free people, particpating in a free market of aircraft travel options, will decide what is the most secure way to fly on an aircraft, not some bureaucrat with an anti-gun agenda.

[steve-b]

In your scenario, he wouldn't need a gun. All he'd need to do is wait till the pilot went to the little pilots' room, lock the door, and glue the lock shut.

[Archangelsk]

Why wouldn't an AlQueerda sleeper agent just get a pilot's license and carry on a gun as the first officer and shoot the pilot?

Are you assuming a U.S. carrier? Because it would take a loooonnnnnnggggg time for a foreign national to get to the right seat of one of our planes.