While I'm not surprised at all, if you read carefully the news:

"As Capt. Ahmedou Muhammad Lemine landed the Air Mauritania Boeing 737..."

...The flight was headed for Gran Canaria, one of Spain's Canary Islands, with a stopover planned in Nouadhibou in northern Mauritania."

The plane was full of muslims. Guess not all of them are terrorists.

While this happened, in my city Madrid we are holding the largest muslim terrorist trial, judging the responsibles of the Madrid train bombings. Tens of thousands of years are being asked by the prosecutors for each participant in the bombings.

Love them Mythbusters!!!!

One bullet would be better, after letting the family members of those they killed, have some time with them.

Oh, and if an airline Capt. thinks passengers should be armed, why wouldn't you agree?

You all beat me to it- Mythbusters clearly demonstrated that the small bullet holes wouldn't be a big deal. Not as big a deal as the loose nut hijacker.

They threw boiling water in his face- NICE!!!!

I smiled when I read this- I believe hijacking's successful days are long over-with.

True that. Nobody said they all are. However I think the more interesting (and telling) statistic would be "what percentage of the world's terrorists ARE Muslim" versus "what percentage of the world's Muslims are terrorists".

Clearly there's something about this Islam thing (or religion in general) that leads a disproportionate number of its "followers" to violent terrorist acts.

they were 7mm pistols. The TSA screening is set for 8mm and above...

You kidding right?

I mean you cannot carry a Red Bull through security but a 7mm pistol is o.k.?

yes. he's kidding.

My favorite sentence so far this year-


The forewarned passengers and crew threw boiling water from a coffee maker onto the man's face and chest, then beat him into submission.

But they left him alive, opening themselves up for lawsuits.

I doubt that air hijacking will ever work again. The passengers will react as though they are dead anyways, and they will rush the hijackers, no matter what. Not that we don't need airport security--I think it's also a deterrent.

Geeze I hope you are kidding around....

Let the air marshalls have the guns.
Thats what they are paid to carry.

We're not

Just make sure that you add that this sort of thing would never happen in Chicago. "Those" muslims are peaceful and a totally different sort of cat...

Sonic

A fair number of pilots have taken this into their own hands. They have taken their own vacation time, traveled to the school at their expense, bought the weapon themselves and gone through extensive training to carry weapons IN THE COCKPIT to defend themselves, the airplane and passengers.

You cannot put a sky marshall on every flight, there just are not enough available (know as a very good friend of mine is a SM) to cover every flight. ARM THE PILOTS!

The Federal law has stated since the 1930's that any airplane carrying US Mail the pilot should be armed to protect it, but this died out in the 1950's. Armed pilots have been in the planes for over 3 years and there has not been ONE incident in this time. If we are responsible enough to fly the plane, then please tell me why we are not responsible enough to carry a weapon in the cockpit?

Personally I wish that every flight crew member be armed, flight attendents included. Advertise the fact and tell anyone who even thinks that they want to hijack a plane about it. Hijacking a plane today is a death sentenance, and thats the way it should be.

We just make sure that they die without making themselves a martyr, so that they do not visit Allah, the 72 virgins or the gold...

After 9/11 a guy I work with (100% Texan) who's about 6'3" 220lbs, made sure he had the front seat on a flight facing the cabin. When the pilot came out to look in the cabin before take off, he told the pilot, "you take care of things up there and I'll take care of things back here." He said the pilot looked relieved.

Another guy I work with who's very blue collar said the only time he's flown first class was right after 9/11. A stewardess came out into the waiting area and picked the biggest (appearantly white) men she found and upgraded them to 1st class.

I agree the days of hijacking a plane in the US are over. We now know to take care of business in the air and not wait for the landing.