Airport security concern...

[Watchman]

The guys at the martial arts school my brother goes to have actually been wondering why the terrorists don't just take the biggest lugs from amongst their would-be martyrs and put them onto a diet of steroids and pumping iron. I mean, they should be willing to make the sacrifice right ? Then if someone tries to get in the way during a hijack they can just topple themselves onto the troublemakers (the biceps getting in the way kind of leave anything more sophisticated out of the options)...
Heck, even if they get killed they still ought to make good barricades to fortify the control room with.

[Fragony]

The guys at the martial arts school my brother goes to have actually been wondering why the terrorists don't just take the biggest lugs from amongst their would-be martyrs and put them onto a diet of steroids and pumping iron. I mean, they should be willing to make the sacrifice right ? Then if someone tries to get in the way during a hijack they can just topple themselves onto the troublemakers (the biceps getting in the way kind of leave anything more sophisticated out of the options)...
Heck, even if they get killed they still ought to make good barricades to fortify the control room with.

You are forgetting that most planes have armed covert cops onboard.

[Watchman]

That much mass ought to make a pretty good bullet-stopper then.

[English assassin]

You are forgetting that most planes have armed covert cops onboard.

No they don't. Except El Al.

After 911 NO ONE would just sit by and let the plane be hijacked. A broken bottle just wouldn't cut it me thinks

If we are safe on planes at all, this is why. The rules of hijacking changed on 9/11. Before you could waive a waterpistol and all the passengers would sit quietly in their places until being freed a free days later. Now you want to hijack a plane you had better have a plan to deal with 200 passengers charging up the aisles at you.

No one, other than Chuck Norris, is going to be able to deal with that.

[Watchman]

Thanks to which whatever nefarious plots are being hatched in some Central Asian cave most likely don't involve passenger jets.

No, seriously. September Eleven worked because it took people by surprise, putting an entirely new twist to the old hijack routine. The momentum of surprise was, however, spent pretty much immediately, and getting a rerun work at all is somewhat dubious at best.
Which is why whatever the next big one eventually may be, it's going to be something rather different and will probably also catch people off guard.

[Husar]

Everyone in a plane ought to have a red button which will immediate detonate the whole plane, that way any hijacker can be stopped.

Just think about it, you don´t need a piece of glass to be dangerous, ever learned martial arts?
So to stop hijacking by Judo fighters we should disallow people on planes?

[Rodion Romanovich]

Here's an idea: all plane travelers are put to sleep by doctors in the airport and carried to the plane, then carried out of the plane at the other airport and not allowed to be awake during the entire trip!

[English assassin]

Here's an idea: all plane travelers are put to sleep by doctors in the airport and carried to the plane, then carried out of the plane at the other airport and not allowed to be awake during the entire trip!

Sounds fine to me. If mankind has invented anything more boring that flying i don't know what it is.

[solypsist]

that's two bad ideas in a row: first was the wine bottle thing (and yes, all u.s. planes all have air marshalls if they seat over 75 people). the second is what happens if the plane has to make an emergency landing? all the sleeping people die? or if a pilot has a heart attack - wake everybody up and ask if anyone is a doctor? there's already an anesthesia solution for people who want to sleep on the plane, it's called the airport bar.

Here's an idea: all plane travelers are put to sleep by doctors in the airport and carried to the plane, then carried out of the plane at the other airport and not allowed to be awake during the entire trip!

[Husar]

Here's an idea: all plane travelers are put to sleep by doctors in the airport and carried to the plane, then carried out of the plane at the other airport and not allowed to be awake during the entire trip!

And then some terrorists manage to fake their sleep...
Or some thieves, or some rapists, or...

As to the human weapon idea, forget karate and focus on PCP! A couple juiced up wackos would tear a plane apart.

I said Judo because it´s better for small rooms like in a plane I heard.
And what is PCP?