<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Middle_seat:
If the pilots and co-pilots in today's incidents had been armed with handguns, the highjackings might have been aborted. Of course, that strategy has its own risks.</font>
Of course, as we saw today, a Boeing 767 is a far more powerful weapon than a Glock 9mm.