--- Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 13 September 2001 22:06 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 09:53:05PM -0400, dep wrote:
> > > On Thursday 13 September 2001 21:42, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > > | Those who cry out for no restraints on personal freedom may find
> > > | one day their personal choices reduced to burning to death or
> > > | jumping 80 stories. Joel
> > >
> > > those who cry out for no restraints on personal freedoms will
> happily
> > > point out to you that, as has been the case on the lirr and
> elsewhere
> > > in the past, one good man with a gun would have solved the problem
> > > with considerably less loss of life.
> > > --
> >
> > I agree. Why they don't arm the pilots is beyond me.
> > Joel
>
> Good thought but I think the problem is that they would have a
> dillemma if
> some crazies are banging on the cockpit door while they hold a knife
> to one
> or more stews/passengers and all the while the pilots are supposed to
> be
> flying the plane. Doesn't sound like a healthy situation to me.
>
> If there were 3 or 4 crazies, the pilots would probably have to shoot
> through
> 3 or 4 hostages in order to kill the crazies. Might be a necessary
> trade-off but still not a nice situation.
Israel's El-Al airlines found a solution to this when they were founded,
well over 30 years ago. Every flight carries a "Flight Marshall" who is
armed with a very large gun.
El-Al is notably one of the few world airlines that has never been
hijacked, nor had any losses of life.
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