>>Don't worry. There will be no flames from me if we disagree.<<<br><br>Thanks. I hope everyone here is capable of the same.<br><br>>>The risk is that all hijackings are not destined for suicide missions. And a passenger revolt may actually put the aircraft and passengers in more danger than inaction.<<<br><br>That is very true, and it’s now completely irrelevant. Again, on 9/11 the stakes were raised by a hundred times or more. We simply have to quit thinking of the aircraft, passengers and crew as paramount. We’ve seen the results of those thought patterns, well intentioned as they may have been. Time to throw them out and move on.<br><br>>>I think a clear distinction in last week's scenarios was that the aircrews lost control of the aircraft and the hijackers were flying them. It's highly unlikely that a commercial pilot would willingly (a) crash the plane or (b) direct a plane into a populated structure.<<<br><br>Absolutely agree- that’s the point. We can never again allow hijackers to retain control of a plane.<br><br>>>Anarchy on an aircraft at 35,000 feet is not desirable.<<<br><br>Loaded word. 200 years ago, any thought of a self-ruled country without an absolute sovereign was “anarchy”. These PC days, the word is invoked whenever someone advocates any power in the hands of the people, the implicit assumption being that ordinary people cannot be wise enough to handle it- but that’s exactly what the generations who made this country great believed in, and acted on. Ordinary, decent people will behave civilly under good circumstances, and come through, again and again, in the worst circumstances. That is not anarchy.<br><br>>> Imagine that you are in such a situation and have determined that patience was the most prudent coarse of action.<<<br><br>If I were the pilot, and I “determined” that, then I would be wrong. To listen to the pilots, they know that very well now. Once control of the situation is lost, the pilot and crew can be killed at convenience, and control of the plane taken at any time. The hijackers do not have to announce their intentions in any way, and, having made that mistake once, probably won’t again.<br><br>>>Hopefully, none of us will ever have to make such judgements.<<<br><br>Amen. <br>But, as with any preparation, the time to think about it is before it happens. Isn’t that what this forum is about?<br><br><br>