[sine_nomine]

Utterly inconsistent with what we have been doing since 9-11, but in harmony with faking out the enemy.

I know the flight crews are ready, willing, and able to combat terrorists. Their lives are on the line. Many passengers, including me, would gladly join the fracas if one started.

[End Times Sentinel]

I know the flight crews are ready, willing, and able to combat terrorists. Their lives are on the line. Many passengers, including me, would gladly join the fracas if one started.

 

Excellent point.  Does anyone really believe that a plane full of people will still sit idly by while 5 rag heads with box cutters try to commandeer the plane?  Look what happened in rural PA when Todd Beamer and his fellow passengers learned what had occurred in New York and Washington.  This isn't the soft target strike it once was.  Ask Richard Reid.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[astounded]

I agree - in my opinion, there is no way a team of 5 muslims could take over a commercial jet in the US. Not only the flight crew, but all able-bodied passengers would join to stop it. Even if they had a firearm, passengers that know they will likely die anyway would be willing to fight. The muslims will certainly have to expend all their ammunition. As for the flight crews, last week I was on an ATA flight from Chicago to Florida and the cabin crew consisted of 3 very able-bodied males who certainly looked capable of resistance - I am noticing more males than before among the cabin crew and consider this to be a direct off-shoot of the terrorist threat.