Re: OT:Prevent Airline Hijacking


"Spehro Pefhany" <speffSNIP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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).

On 9-12-01, we had a pre-scheduled meeting with a few SF types who were in
to check the status of equipment we were developing for them. They
suggested that every adult passenger be issued a low-power, single-shot
pistol when boarding the plane. In case of trouble, majority rules.



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