Posted on 09/21/2001 1:39:06 PM PDT by Bucanight
Wow, good for them. Imagine the terrorist's surprise, they probably expected no resistance. I hope they really gave it to those f***ers.
Beats the hell out of being turned into plane pizza, and getting cooked to a crisp.
History Channel had a bit on last week about a FedEx plane where one of the crew members went crazy, and tried to overpower the rest of the crew so he could crash it into the FedEx HQ building. The pilot turned the plane on its back, and rattled this guy around the fuselage like a die in a cup. While he was still stunned they tied him up.
Funny thing is that the cockpit has a fire axe in it. It is so the captain can chop his way out of trouble in a crash. It would make a jim-dandy anti-terrorist tool, if a pilot can steel himself up to using it. (Just the image of splitting someone open with an axe is enough to deter some people from actually doing it.)
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