RE: Capt. Crosswind
Suggest non aviators should not clutter up the thread & leave operational matters to those in the front line.
Man, am I glad I don't have that obectionable nerve in my teeth.
Perhaps it's slipped that vise-like grip you've got on perspective...
Of the
276 people that perished aboard aircraft on 9/11: 8 of them were pilots, 25 of them were cabin crew, and the remaining 243 were passengers.
And, if you'll recall: The only people that demonstrated any potential for interfering with the plan to use aircraft as weapons of mass destruction on that terrible morning, they weren't in the cockpit.
If I believed that there was even the smallest degree of intelligence in arming
anyone on that aircraft--it sure as hell wouldn't be you--it would be your cabin crew.
The number of casualties was over
tenfold higher
because those aircraft were used as weapons of destruction that morning--and God only knows how many more would have died, if 93 had found its target.
Please excuse the intrusion of reason. I'll leave you boys to play this ridiculous, ego-gratifying game of "tough guy".
Bleeech.