All seem to forget that a hijacked plane will probably have a pair of
F-16"s in trail and can be given authority to shoot the bird down with
all on board going kaput.

Which do you want, one or two or the whole plane and God knows how
many on the ground?

A shoot out at the OK corral seems to me to be preferable.

Big John


On 5 Jan 2004 16:45:09 -0800,
(running with scissors) wrote:

"C J Campbell" wrote in message ...
"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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| "C J Campbell" wrote in message
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| We do not really know any such thing. If the passenger is bigger than
the
| window he simply cannot be pulled through it any more than he can sucked
up
| through a vacuum cleaner hose.
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| Passengers are pretty flexible. Some might plug up the hole, others
will
| go through holes that looked like they ought not to fit through.
|

The windows are surprisingly large, too. I have no doubt that a small person
could get through one, especially if his seatbelt is not properly fastened.
However, you are not going to lose a whole planeload of passengers this way.
Given a choice, I would shoot a hijacker with the off chance of killing an
innocent bystander rather than allow the hijacker to drive the plane into a
crowded building.


ok.. interesting scenario. but what would be the option if the
hijacker was a midget ??