Passengers tackle man charging cockpit on Honolulu flight

http://khon.com/khon/displayStory.cfm?storyID=9606 ^ | December 9, 2005 10:00 PM | Gina Mangieri

[stephenjohnbanker]

BTTT

[indcons]

Where are the air marshals when you need them? This SOB should have been shot like that other nutjob, Alpizar.

[maica]

OK, you and your brother will be excellent witnesses!! The guy on the plane in Florida had to be your cousin. Y'all look so much alike.

[PLMerite]

"an on-board restraint pack."

What is this, "B&D Airways" or something?

[Jimmy Valentine]

Depends on whether I get my drink before or AFTER the a**h**e pees on the drinks cart. ;)

Yes a little hyperbole there but you get the idea.

[SunnySide]

"Do you travel by air much? Just asking. Tweakers seem to be rare on the flights that I am on. They are common on the ground."

...

I'm not trying to be rude but you don't seem to be paying attention to your surroundings, people. Rampant drug abuse is spread across every financial, occupational, age groups in America now. Drug abuse IS epidemic "now".

[SunnySide]

The two in your photo are proof extraterrestials have been to earth, impregnated some of our women.

They look like Star Wars character Jar Jar Binks
offspring.

Just say no to inbreeding.

[Smokin' Joe]

Are the passengers' determination enough ?

Oh yeah.

September 11 upped the ante, so to speak. Waiting for hostage negotiations is on longer an option.

Either the flight crew retains control of the plane or you are dead, if not by the actions of the hijackers, then by the necessity to shoot the plane down in some relatively unpopulated place to prevent another 9/11.

Once that sinks in, there is no other option.

You are dead already. If you want to have a chance to live, win at any cost.

[chief_bigfoot]

"How exactly do you threaten an infant?"

Vote DemocRat?

[1rudeboy]

The use of the term "national" has been customary for quite some time.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

No air marshal was aboard, but seven passengers tackled and subdued him.

Air marshals or not, people aren't going to sit and let 9/11 happen again.

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

"Either the flight crew retains control of the plane or you are dead, if not by the actions of the hijackers, then by the necessity to shoot the plane down in some relatively unpopulated place to prevent another 9/11. Once that sinks in, there is no other option. You are dead already. If you want to have a chance to live, win at any cost."

Even if the flight crew is incapacitated/killed and hijackers have taken over the plane, I think one last chance should be allowed for the lives of the passengers. A formation of F-16s could be flying around the plane and the hijackers told that they have exactly so much time to cooperate and fly *exactly* according to instruction until its safely landed at a designated location. One wrong turn/change in airspeed/altitude etc would result in the destruction of the airplane.
But I suppose today's Islamic maggots would be content to give their lives just for the deaths of a few dozen civilians and the airplane itself.

[Smokin' Joe]

Nice idea, but I doubt it. First, there is virtually no major airport capable of landing a jetliner which is not near enough to a city to divert the plane or over/undershoot the runway before the plane is either shot down, or in such a position that shooting it down would only result in killing massive numbers of civillians on the ground, anyway.

To attempt to divert the plane to a military facility only gives the hijackers the opportunity to do the same sort of thing to a military facility.

I am afraid that only if the passengers managed to take control of the plane, have their identity verified, and land it successfully, would you have a chance of survival.

Best to never let anyone else get control, whatever that takes. If they eventually try using a planeload of dead people as a bomb, at least you tried and won't be around for the final act, when the fighters get gun/missile lock.

[grey_whiskers]

Anti-"all kinds of things" Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!!

Just terrorizing the planes Americans won't.

(Obviously to make the folks at TechCentralStation happy, he was getting paid less, so he was less effective at it too...)

[Dashing Dasher]

WTF Ping.....

Are these people not paying attention?
Charging the cockpit MIGHT WILL be bad for you!

[Dashing Dasher]

Your pictures are being used here ...

Boy, you guys are ugly.

[Squantos]

Well we "are" popular even if we be fugly.....

[Dashing Dasher]

You are one of MY Faves!

;-)

DD

[Dante3]

Why not just say Mexican?

I've noticed the word "community" also is often tacked on to categories of people even though unnecessary.

[NonValueAdded]

Damn straight and those heroes set the example. To propose "honoring" them with a red crescent pointed at Mecca is obscene.