OK, what the hell has happened to the Brits?

On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 03:11:24 +0100, "Michael Nouak"
wrote:

Simply become an air marshal. On the day you get the call from Osama, simply
board your flight, maybe with another air marshal. At the appropriate time,
get up, scream "US Marshal, freeze!" and shoot the other marshal, or any
random passenger if you're alone, in the head. Scream "Nobody move!", make
your way up front and demand to see the captain so you can explain the
"situation." Kill the flight crew and crash the plane at a place of your
choosing.

There are a couple of major problems with that scenario - it would
never get that far.

(Sorry for the cryptic reply but it's probably not a good idea to go
into the specifics of what's wrong with your scenario, as you might
imagine.)

-J

Jack Davis
B-737


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Arguing over gun control and calling each other names doesn't help the
conversation, does it? The US does things their way, the UK does
things their way - what's right for one isn't necessarily right for
the other.

On the question of the sky marshals, the main reason for the UK pilots
opposing them is not, as I understand, a fear of guns per se. The
government has said the sky marshals will only be used on flights
where there is a perceived threat to that flight; the pilots are
saying that if there's a known threat, they're not going to fly with
or without marshals, which is, they say (and I tend to agree) the
safest option for all concerned.

Now some might say fly anyway and let the marshals take care of
things, but they're not the ones (the aircraft captains) who are
responsible for several hundred lives in the air and, as per 9/11,
thousands on the ground.

Peter Stokes