what sares me the most about this is two things: 1) any crackpot, Muslim or otherwise, will feel compelled to "make a statement:; and 2) but for the fact that he didn't know what the hell he was doing, 180 people would have died. Had he been trained and disciplined like the Islamic fundamentalists who pulled off 9-11, it would have been yet another tragedy.

BZ to the flight crew and pax, however.