[No Truce With Kings]

If they were to take a cargo plane I 'spect they'd shoot/stab/pummell to death the crew before they ever left the ground.

So how do they get aboard? In a cargo container? And once they kill the crew, how do they get clearance to take off? I can just imagine the conversation with the tower:

FED-EX 123: "Ziss Ez Fez-Ex wun too zhree. I beg your ezcellenzy for clearance to taxi to runway zhero-zhree-zhero for launching."

TOWER: "Billy-Bob Baker, whassup? Stop with that fake accent, man."

FED-EX 123: "Zorry. Weel repeat. Need your ezcellenzy to allow clearance to taxi to runway zhero-zhree-zhero for launching."

TOWER: "Ah." Long pause. "Copy that Fed-Ex 123. We have just had an inbound jet declare an emergency. Go to Taxi four-five-four, and hold. Repeat, go to Taxi four-five-four, and hold, until the inbound has landed."

Sounds of fire trucks rolling, then blocking runways. Crash wagons roll, and park themselves behind and in front of landing gear on Fed-Ex 123.

To be honest, I find this a lot less far-fetched than the idea of a bunch of Arab Ninjas secretly sneaking aboard an airplane, killing the crew, and then routinely taking off.

[blackdog]

LOL! Yeah, if you know the air freight business, you know the tower and enroute controllers know the crews really well. Most the stuff is hauled at night when things are boring. Chit-chat is a reality.

The funny part is that any pilot knows those stupid idiots cannot even do a readback without assistance from the controllers. They freak at the most basic radio request for expressing an intention.

[Loopy]

Perhaps it would be very difficult. I don't know, I'm not a terrorist. Maybe watch to many movies. I simply should think it easier to get a pilot on board, take off without clearance and fly for five minutes. Worst case scenario, you crash your plane on takeoff and cause a mess somewhere. I should think a terrorist would view that as a win-win scenario.