Originally Posted by ClueByFour
I'm a pilot (private SEL/IFR and working on the multi) and a pretty good pistol shot. I cannot imagine trying to land a transport-class turbine aircraft and survive an armed standoff at a range of less than 2 meters (in a pressurized tube, no less) at the same time.
Arm the air marshalls and armor the cockpit door. The FFDO program is a problem waiting to happen.
And don't forget the likely willingness of the pax to help perform a beat-down on the bad guys if at all possible. There's no way I'm going to stay seated and wait to die unless the flight officers or a FAM tells me to. Big-n-tall JPT will be happy to help beat the snot out of the bad guys and then stow them neatly in the overhead compartment.
BTW, I completely agree with your post, ClueByFour. Y'all stay in there and get us safely back on the ground. I'll be out in the cabin trying to make the bad guys eat a beverage cart.