I've always wondered about this business of forcing a pilot to do something at gunpoint - even more so in a heli. If the bad guys shoot the pilot they will certainly die without having completed their mission - so no virgins etc. Of course they may not be entirely rational. I guess it's a bluffing game and if I was on the wrong end of the gun maybe I'd go along quietly, even knowing that having helped them commit their atrocity they'd probably shoot me anyway. But still it doesn't survive a rational analysis.
(I can't comment on Project Pegasus since fortunately for me I'm 6000 miles away from the Olympics madness).