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Last week, I saw an interview on, I think, FNC with a commercial pilot who was in the air when we were attacked. He was asked what he had been prepared to do. He said that he and his co-pilot discussed this and found a heavy metal flashlight that could be used as a weapon if someone broke into the cockpit. Then, he instructed the passengers to secure their seatbelts. He said if someone was in the process of hijacking the plane, with the passengers secure in their seats, he would have maneuvered the plane in such a fashion as to bounce the hijacker off the ceiling! IOW, he would have beat the heck out of him/them with the plane! I thought the pilot was pretty cool. I do wonder if the passengers would have enjoyed being all over the sky, tho'.;o)

I do wonder if the passengers would have enjoyed being all over the sky, tho'

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.)