Originally Posted by law dawg
Disagree. Knives worked spectacularly well on 9/11. And they will work well again unless the 1)passengers, 2) FAMS and/or 3) the crew were willing to surrender their meat to the metal to stop them.
Which is obviously the case now. None of us will sit still while a terrorist tries to slit the throat of an FA. On top of which the cockpit door will stay closed and locked no matter what happens in the cabin. Realistically, several large men will happily beat the crap out of any idiot(s) who try to take over a plane now. We wouldn't before 9/11, but we will now. Even if we have to get hurt doing it. It's better than dying and being part of an attack on other people.