AF0 is right you know -- a pilot might find it hard to ditch an aircraft when he is struggling for the controls with a hijacker -- I don't think it was planned -- there's videos of it and I think I would have been a
slightly neater affair had the pilot made
concious effort to ditch!!!
Anyway, thanks Tor, that's cheered me up no end (I'm flying transatlantic a week from today as a passenger). Nice to know I have a chance if ditching were necessary.
SFly