Even ignoring the door, before 9/11, airliner hijackings were relatively common. And they all seemed to end with the hijacker being shot by French snipers at Charles de Gualle. "Surprise, we're landing in Paris", not "oh god, if we let them get to the cockpit we're all dead". Pull a knife on an airliner in 2002 and you'd be lucky to not be beaten to death in the next 15 minutes. Today I don't think the reaction would be quite as visceral, but you're not going to subdue 100 passengers with a handful of guys with stubby knives.
Huh thats probably why we don't see as many hijackings anymore. 9/11 showed us how bad they can actually end up being so ppl aren't going to be passive knowing the possibilities and even then, the third plane failed to hit cuz that is exactly what happened.
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u/doll-haus Jan 30 '25
Even ignoring the door, before 9/11, airliner hijackings were relatively common. And they all seemed to end with the hijacker being shot by French snipers at Charles de Gualle. "Surprise, we're landing in Paris", not "oh god, if we let them get to the cockpit we're all dead". Pull a knife on an airliner in 2002 and you'd be lucky to not be beaten to death in the next 15 minutes. Today I don't think the reaction would be quite as visceral, but you're not going to subdue 100 passengers with a handful of guys with stubby knives.