Joe Garrett wrote:
> If only one person on each of those airplanes had been armed, this would
> never have happened. Those people could have been air marshals or private
> citizens. It wouldn't matter.
People do not use guns in aeroplanes for the specific reason that the
first shot fired invariably results in explosive decompression when the
bullet passes thru the hijacker and then the side of the aeroplane.
Result one dead hijacker and seconds later catasrophic failure of the
aeroplane structure and the crew/passengers are in free-fall.
They have considered reduced charge ammunition but the concensus of
opinion is that it would not put anyone down with the first shot and if
the firer were close enough to the side of the aeroplane then the end
result would still be the catastophic decompression.
TTFN
Jim
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