In both these incidents, I didn’t hear about any on-board, armed federal air marshals stepping up. Have they all been laid-off?
They are either sleeping or holding back to see if there are any other outriders involved in the disruption. I thought it was interesting that so many phones were turned back on to take video of the incident. The videos showed what looked like a lot of people collecting in the aisle willing to help subdue/put the boot to the person if it was needed.
When I flew to Amarillo in 2009 from Nashville, via Dallas and back, there were no air marshals either, but Jet Blue doesn’t normally land in Amarillo. It was also reported that the pilot might have been a former war veteran and as such shouldn’t probably not have been permitted to fly