by TR 15 Replies latest jw friends
I saw an interview with a pilot for a major airline last Tuesday. The pilot said that if you fly now you should always keep you seat belt on; the reason being that if the plane is subject to an attempted hijacking they have orders to depressurize the cabin (this means you must breath through the air mask or die) and to go through a series of violent maneuvers to make sure whoever is not buckled in cannot walk.
Jelly
Moustache or not, saying Hi Jack" on a plane is a federal offense. LOL
Boozy
Hi Jelly and TR: I appreciate the Denver acount, and hope that passengers will act together if such a thing happens again.
I saw the same TV interview about the depressurization. Very good. Back in the 1960s when Hi-Jackings came into vogue, we talked then of several things. One was to have a release hatch at the pilot door step with a video. As soon as the hijacker steped up to enter the cabin, the pilot would trip the release and out the hijacker would go.
Another suggeston was to gas the cabin with sleeping gas before take-off. Everyone would sleep until the plane landed.
I like the deprressurization idea the best. Can't do much without oxygen. Thanks. - Amazing
"Remember, there will be one of him and maybe a few confederates, but there are 200 of you. You can overwhelm them."The Declaration of Independence says 'We, the people' and that's just what it is when we're up in the air: we, the people, vs. would-be terrorists.
If only the passengers on those ill-fated flights last Tuesday had been given the same talk, I thought, they might be alive today...
I have no doubt about the last statement. None. They could've taken matters into their own hands, just didn't know it. Vigilantism has its place, although in that instance it would better be described as self-defense.
Thanks, TR, for passing this on. So will I. I hope pilots have that written out and that they read it at the beginning of every flight. If I were onboard, it would sound like music to me.
Peace,
tj
bttt
uhmm, yeah, how bout we keep all the guns off all the planes?
I heard a short story on NPR about one flight that had been grounded, when it took off again, there was a person with a rottweiler up close to the cabin.
A smart pilot not afraid to bend the rules for his and his passengers safety imo.
