If chicken littles got their way, general members of the public -- save armed guards with weapons ready to mow the passengers down -- could be sedated, placed in straightjackets, chained to both the floor and the ceiling and probably paraded on board naked (or at least naked under "issued" "clothes") with dog collars around their neck. Here's the ad for "Liberty Air": "We make the friendly skies safer."

This sounds like a case where the right outcome happened.