<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Mikey likes it:
Another suggestion:
Give the pilots a) a better reinforced door and b) the ability to depressurize the cabin without the masks dropping. This would permit the pilots the ability to knock everyone out if necessary.
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If the terrorists want to use the plane as a weapon, turn it back against them.
Mike</font>
I ran into a guy whose wife was a CO FA until she took a LOA a couple of weeks ago. He told me that she was flying out of Houston a week or so after the attacks and related the following story:
When she and the other FAs were readying the plane for departure, the Captain called the entire staff to the front of the plane. He said, in substance, that if he heard anything more than glasses clinking together in the back that he would take the plane into a sharp bank and thereby depressurize the plane. The FAs revolted and got a supervisor, who said that they could either go on the flight or be fired.
The guy didn't know what kind of plane this was.
Is this possible? I guess the idea was that a sharp bank would somehow compromise the door seals and depressurize the plane.
Of course, this is a second-hand story.
Comments?
Mike