Originally Posted by
eyecue
I brought this concept up a long time ago and I got baked on here for it. Everyone on the plane has a right to be secure against attacks. This means that even though the whole plane was not used as a weapon when the passenger in 3a pulled a knife and started slashing other people, those other people could have been protected. You cant let some things go on a premise that the passenger beware. One thing that I have learned is that people DONT read signs, DONT listen to announcements, DONT watch video presentations etc.
But what's the difference in pulling a knife versus using what's already at someone's disposal in the aircraft?
Metal knives have made their return on UA flights (as of 3/15/07). You can kill someone with a pen, you can walk right up to the galley and break the bottle of wine the FAs are using and certainly use that as well.
The point here is that if all of these weapons have been at someone's disposal for such a long time, why haven't they been used?