Let's not forget the truly awful Mukonyi incident- the schizo Kenyan who decided that 400 people should be killed on the Nairobi flight. The background to it is worse than you may think. I'm told that one of the upper deck passengers was all set to terminate him there and then. I'm afraid the era of high security is upon us- there is a good reason for it, and the days of passengers visiting the flight deck are gone for good, unless you travel on airlines that haven't learnt their lesson yet. The hijacking era started when it became clear how easy it was to do it. We seem to have come out of that after making it harder and giving a robust response. We don't want any more bizarre suicide (and mass murder) atempts.