Re: OT:Prevent Airline Hijacking

On Fri, 13 May 2005 15:35:48 GMT, the renowned Rich Grise
<richgrise@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Fri, 13 May 2005 00:12:24 -0400, Mike Monett wrote:
>> Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
>> [...]
>>> People getting sucked out holes is a myth. There was a 747 that lost a
>>> cargo door and a chunk of the passenger cabin wall at altitude. Other
>>> than the poor guy whose seat was attached to the chunk of airplane that
>>> got ripped out, nobody else went out the hole.
>>
>> Nine people went through that hole:
>>
>[people sucked out of airplanes stories]
>
>Then the answer to the hijacking problem is trivially simple: attach
>the roof of the cockpit with explosive bolts. When the hijackers break
>into the cockpit and start threatening the crew, blow the roof. The
>hijackers will be sucked out, and everybody else should have been
>belted in.
>
>Problem solved.
>
>Cheers!
>Rich

This discussion is pretty much pointless. Anyone tries to hijack a
commercial airliner these days, with anything they could get through
even pre-911 US/European security measures, will be restrained and
quite possibly beaten to death by the unarmed passengers and crew
before they can do anything. As happened a few years ago with a guy
who tried to hijack a domestic Chinese flight. The 9/11 thing only
works once, which is why they did multiples (greatly increasing the
risk of detection).


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