This is why I don’t fly. First, the theory, that to protect people, that they will be held in a zone of danger for an hour and a half.
I thought about what you said here, and in my humble opinion the people they wan to protect are not the passengers but the “official” types, firemen, TSA, FBI, etc. We the people are merely the incidental casualties from their point of view,
Just before a friend of mine got out of the firefighter game, he said something that was reasonably similar - ‘Those aren’t hostages, they are future evidence collection units.’