Originally Posted by
mickjoebill
Commentstors say the 90 minute delay to disembarkation was so police could check the passenger list and maybe raid the guys house, to investigate the possibility of an accomplice.
Fine, but it is nonsense that the suspect device couldn't have been removed from the plane to reduce the threat, be it real or imagined both are damaging to passengers.
No doubt it's easier for the good guys to take out the bad guy when they know where he is seated so keeping passengers onboard and in their assigned seat has merit, up to the point where the accomplice detonates his bomb or a gunfight starts in a densely populated environment.
Wouldn't transferring passengers onto buses seperate them from any neferious contents of hand baggage and so further reduce the risk?
Mickjoebill
How times have changed. In my day, the Skipper would have grabbed the bloke and frog marched him down the isle and dropkicked him into the waiting arms of Constable Plod, who would have rammed his head into the closest wall, then thrown him into the Paddywagon, and he would have spent some uncomfortable nights as a guest of His/Her Majesty, then brought before a Magistrate who had no political leanings, and was not remotely interested in The Rights of the felon. But then again we were mainly spared these idiots, for some unknown reason.