An emailer says:
I can’t understand why you take such a negative point of view on the solution of aerial acrobatics to disarm terrorists, which I had missed in the news. Please give it a little more thought, considering it in a little more detail.
It will simply require a plan to be developed in stages, as follows:
- Teach airline pilots to roll successfully, in the aircraft in which they are qualified.
- Teach advanced course of four-point slow roll.
- Revise A/C safety lights to announce, “Fasten Seat Belts, NON-TERRORISTS ONLY”
- In event of attack, perform Maneuver 1 and announce “Anyone standing on the ceiling, put up your hands to promise you will surrender…If you refuse to do so we will get quite upset”…. then perform maneuver 2, until the flight attendants catch each perpetrator and cuff with plastic cuffs.
- Before issuing this directive, check with the Administration to get approval for plastic cuffs, but in no event shall these be issued for flight crews, whose judgment on such matters is highly suspect.