>>> If the plane makes an unscheduled landing, I plan on walking away from it.

Good for you! As we all know, a positive attitude is probably 95% of survival anyway.

>>>I also plan on surviving the environment in which said landing takes place.

Also great. I haven't checked the water temperature lately south of Iceland on my route to Amsterdam (flying 777's out of Washington DC), but I imagine it's still pretty nippy. Actually, it's ALWAYS nippy. <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

>>>If someone tries to hijack the plane, I plan on doing something about it.

Good on ya. You'll join the other 247 passengers + 16 crewmembers in the fray. The good news is that everyone is of this same mindset now.

>>>>If more people had this attitude the events of 20010911 would likely have been less severe.

Well, yeah....no major detective work required on that issue. The heroic passengers on UAL Flight 93 were doing just that. 9/11 produced a paradigm shift in the way hijackings were viewed by airlines. Previously, all of our training (pilots) was aimed at cooperate and graduate -- placate the hijacker, go on to Cuba. Obviously, those days are gone forever. Until we get OUR guns, we have to make do with that nice little titanium-edged cockpit axe and the fortress door.

>>>>>20010911

Ummm, just curious as to your method of writing 9/11. Any reason why you do it this way?

>>>I'm a citizen of the United States of America. It's my right to bear weapons. Period.

You betcha it is! As long as it's not on MY airplane.

>>>>The days when I could just give my knife to the stews, who put it in the pilot's lockbox for safekeeping.

There's really no lockbox on the plane, at least not in the cockpit.

>>>walking canes are specifically allowed by reg.'s,

As long as there's no stiletto embedded in it.

And hey, have you seen those totally plastic guns that pass right through security? And how about those SAMs waiting for us on final approach into London Heathrow?

Air travel is soooo much fun these days.