I’m fairly certain I’d fight (I don’t think anyone can know with absolute certainty what they’d do in such a sitation, but…), even though I’m just a girl…
**wolfman ** mentioned it first, but I’m sure a number of us have thought about it and come to the same conclusion.
So where do you stand–fight or debate and die?
Christ, Mhendo, I didn’t see your response. Okay, you can sit near me after all.
Here’s why I would absolutely fight: I know going in there is zero percent chance of living if I cower and maybe only two percent if I fight.
What would spur me to act is not just rage at the bastards, but my psycho desire to inflict as my pain on them as I can before they cut me down.
I’m a big guy. I know going unarmed against a prick with a knife–not that he has ANY training in knife-fighting, mind you–isn’t my ideal choice. But I’m also reasonably confident that I could inflict mortal wounds on him before I bleed to death.
In short, I want to see the horror on his face when tables turn and Allah is calling him home. I want to hear him gasp, see him shudder and watch him die.
Well, at least one group has threatened attacks on airplanes. Granted, words are just words and it doesn’t say specifically that they would try to use the plane as a weapon. But given the importance of travel to the United States, I’m sure they wouldn’t pass up attacking planes again if they got the chance.
Heh, if nothing else, this thread could be a useful tutorial. 
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I do hope we can fit down the isle together, cuz I’d be right next to you.
Oh and watching the frightened look on their faces when they see 10 guys get up to their 5 would be priceless.
Quick hijack [sup]terrible pun I know[/sup] of my own thread, but if the cockpit is locked securly, what could the terrorists do to bring the plane down? Let’s say they open a door or some other such treachery…what could they do other than fight with the passengers…hope no one fights back…?
Do you mean to get control of the plane? Maybe they could try a hostage thing or a bomb threat.
Well maybe to get the plane down, or maybe just to cause terror…What I am asserting is, if the pilots won’t open the door, there is little a terrorist can do to get in. I’m not even sure if killing passengers would open the door in this post 9/11 America. I could be wrong. And if their intent was to take over the plane, they would still have to get by the unruly passengers who all want to ring their neck, because we’d know what they wanted to do!
True. But you don’t need to get into the cockpit to bring a plane down if you just want to destroy it.
Right, but then it is just a plane crash…and not a targeted hit to the capital building. I’d think the Al Quaida types would want the big bang! NO?
I am glad the wus to hero ratio is so good.
I’m not entirely convinced that a plane full of Rambo types is better then a plane full of wussies though, in terms of survival.
I would think so, but blowing up a couple of planes at the same time would achieve their goal as well. Hypothetically, if you’re just going to blow yourself up and take out the plane, you don’t need to target uncrowded flights like the September 11th guys did, and you might not need teams either.
Ok, we all agree that no one knows what they’ll do until they do it.
The events of 9/11 prove you wrong. The one plane where the passengers had time to formulate a plan and knew what had happenned previously turned into a bunch of charging, screaming, rightously pissed-off people. Now, most everyone will have that in mind, I do not think it’s BS or posturing.
But please, go ahead and argue as much as you want. I think it’s funny that a discussion like this can go on and on on a message board when it’s all kinda moot.
Yes, Moot. But nontheless informative for those of us who fly often.
Sorry, I meant “moot” in that I agreed that the days of that kind of hijacking are probubly over.
and… I’d fight like a cornered weasel!
I think that the threat to airplanes these days is surface-to-air missles. Post-9/11, hijacking with knives would be…counter-productive, to say the least. Locked doors, air marshalls, pissed passengers make hijacking too big a risk. But a Stinger can take down a 757 from a pretty good distance. Easier to just go skeet-shooting than try a co-ordinated hijack. And we gave Stingers to freaking everybody during the Cold War!
Just one more thing to worry about… 
If they get in the cockpit, everyone is dead. Even if you die in the process of them getting to the cockpit, the noise and comotion you make will hopefully be enough to alert the crew to what’s going on so they can prepare some sort of surprise for the first hijacker when he opens the cockpit door *
- such as a fire extinguisher
I fly a lot. sometime 3 or 4 round trips a month. Over 50,000 miles per year for the last 12 years or so. I started giving this subject much thought on 9/11 since at the time I was out of the country on a business trip. (BTW shout out to our Canadian friends, they were wonderful to a very lonely stranded American)
I made the decision on that day, that if anyone ever tried to hijack a flight I was on, I would refuse to be a willing victim. They will have to kill me before I let them take over a flight I am on.