Phew. Glad to hear this aircraft got back on the ground ok and somewhat sorry there wasn't time to, at the very least, hack both the attacker's kneecaps off.
"Fire Axe" though, takes one back to a time when passengers were only occasionally quirky and the captain was very much The Master. Old PanAm hands might remember and it was told to me by The Captain hisself, one of the oldest of the old Trippe gang. Flight deck was informed by cabin crew that a male passenger had become inebriated and was making unwelcome advances to the lady in the seat next to him, became aggressive when asked to desist or change seats. Situation going out of control for cabin crew, rescued by Capt M slouching out of the cockpit with fireaxe held lightly but conspicuously behind his back and, in best droll Philadelphian, asking male passenger to please behave. No further problem.
The Empire, in those days, could strike back.