Originally Posted by
Superguy
But you keep leaving that out, conveniently or not. At least your posts convey the assumptions that the pilots are going to keep going on with the flight plan and do nothing to disrupt the attack.
Before you can react you have to know there's a problem. Remember they can't see anything and have to rely on either a call from the back or hearing and discerning what's happening, which is difficult in a plane at altitude.
Another is that a lot of the pilots would be chickensh!t. Remember, a lot of those airline pilots are former military.
Lots of military and LEOs have frozen when faced with lethal force, me included. My first critical incident I didn't react well. It happens. And that incident, while lethal force, was nowhere the degree of a hijacking.