i wud have to say that our foolish friend from eritrea was pretty lucky. these days and given what was going on in londun i'm surprised people didnt go right to def con 1. remeber the southwest airlines who had half the cabin stomping on him- killing him in the process- after he went bizerk?
some of the attitudes are concern. flying at a previous midle east airline, it seemed some captains thought this was a american only problem- won't happen here because sept 11th was all a zionist conspiracy and good muslims would never do something like this. when they implimented the flight deck door policy, i got the impression that some of the guys would have prefered to counsil a posible hijacker about their misguided ways, that this is unislamic conduct, etc. etc.