"Hilton" wrote in message
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C J Campbell wrote:
The whole thing seems incredibly dangerous to me. What if they start
pulling
out their weapons and making threatening movements during the flight? A
pilot might kill them first and ask questions later.

Or get distracted, crash, and have NBC run a program on how GA killed two
of
theirs, small planes are dangerous, etc etc etc...

I would destroy an airplane before letting a terrorist have it. If I crashed
under such circumstances it would be deliberate. I would attempt to make
sure that ATC knew what was going on and I might attempt to make the crash
survivable, but those would be secondary priorities. There being no way to
tell the difference between reporters acting like terrorists and terrorists
claiming to be reporters, I would assume that they might say anything or
produce any kind of supposed documentation if their lives were threatened.
Kill them first, I say, and let NBC explain things later if turns out their
guys were real.

Just like an NBC reporter to bring a Leatherman to a gunfight. :-)

Honestly, though, it bothers me that so many pilots seem to think that a
moment's distraction is enough to cause you to lose control of an airplane.
What kind of pilot skill is that?