[skr]

Perhaps one of the new safety instructions the flight attendants should give is that all passengers are required to fire their flotation devices at the hijacker. No one would have to get too close to that box cutter and everyone with a seat cushion can participate. Not to mention that seat cushions would make a decent shield for a box cutter when closing in on the guy.

One thing though, everyone talks about the box cutters and leaves out the alleged bomb that one terrorist had. That changes the parameters to some extent, if the passengers aren't aware of any building-crashing schemes. One would have to be fairly certain that the hijacker doesn't just want to land at a different locale. One could kill an entire plane-load of people if the motive is misjudged.

[Mulder]

Perhaps one of the new safety instructions the flight attendants should give is that all passengers are required to fire their flotation devices at the hijacker. No one would have to get too close to that box cutter and everyone with a seat cushion can participate.

LOL.

A simpler solution is to have the pilot, or armed passengers fire two rounds to the chest of the terrorist.

Hell, that wouldn't even interrupt the in-flight movie, if done properly.

[B4Ranch]

A plane load of people is a smaller loss than a building full of people.

[TheRealLobo]

You said: "One thing though, everyone talks about the box cutters and leaves out the alleged bomb that one terrorist had. That changes the parameters to some extent, if the passengers aren't aware of any building-crashing schemes. One would have to be fairly certain that the hijacker doesn't just want to land at a different locale. One could kill an entire plane-load of people if the motive is misjudged."

"One" would assume that if a person were to take a bomb on board an aircraft, said person is not trustworthy enough to take their word that they "are not going to hurt anyone." "One" would NOT be responsible if a hijacker blew up the airplane. The HIJACKER WITH THE BOMB would be responsible. If you think that complying with a hi-jackers demands is acceptable, REGARDLESS of what he SAYS he is going to do, just stand aside and let those that actually are willing to defend themselves take care of business.