Originally Posted by stimpy
Actually I have a fair amount of experience in violent crowd control so I'm sure of how I will react. And yes many passengers will not be in shape or have the will to act. But I believe that enough will on most any flight in the world. That's why I haven't been afraid at all to fly after 9/11.
Really? I'll pose the same question to you as I did to someone in another thread:
Ok, I'm going to interject some reality here. Your numbers and idea of a likely hijacking scenario are way off. Here is a more likely scenario as evidenced by current data:
Your number of 10 is pretty close. Ten hijackers that is. They will all be armed. Let's say two with handguns and eight with edged weapons. They are well trained, highly disciplined, martyrs in the making. They know they are going to die in the next 30 minutes. You, on the other hand, are watching another re-run on the video monitor. All of the sudden 10 men simultaneously stand up and kill the person sitting next to them and dump their bodies in the aisle. Four of them rush the flight deck, and six of them position themselves at the front of the plane. That took about 10 seconds, max. A passenger gets up from his seat in protest, BANG! he gets killed where he stands. You have 18" of bloody aisle and 10 dead bodies to negotiate before you can one-by-one engage the hijackers.
What will you do??? How many passengers are going to try and re-take the aircraft?? Are you willing to be first??