They’re obviously all part of SOC’s Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.

Now I’m scared……. 😮

And you are right to fear this, Arthur……..

My good lady wife thinks Alex Lifeson (for it is he) looks like Kiefer Sutherland after a week on the curry and Guinness. 😮

….the person who wrote it is a pilot, a senior Captain. In the article he clearly states his willingess to kill any would be hijacker.

Well, the former doesn’t make him infallible, and the latter wouldn’t make me want to be anywhere near him while he’s carrying a gun.

The pilot should be concentrating on flying the aeroplane, not looking out for a chance to play hero.

Of course it is, J Boyle.

Choosing when to announce the order is, however, another matter entirely.

I’m not criticising Boeing for this – to be honest, it’s exactly what I would have done. :diablo:

So…. let’s get this right, Sandy.

You’re going to have two men, or two women, or a man and a woman who are flying an airliner. Pilots – not law enforcement agents or members of the armed forces – plain old everyday pilots.

Suddenly, pandemonium breaks out in the cabin.

Their stress and adrenalin levels go through the roof – they’re isolated and in danger in a cramped space: people may be being killed on the other side of that door and there’s no way out without dumping fuel and landing the plane.

And then you’re going to put a gun in the hands of one of them and they’ll stride out through the cockpit door and calmly take out all of the bad guys?

All this while the other crew member deals solo with the minor task of letting someone on the ground know what’s going on, persuading them not to shoot the plane down, dumping fuel and landing the plane? While the Gunfight At The OK Corral is being re-enacted in the cabin?

And they all live happily ever after…….

You’ve seen too many Bruce Willis and Steven Seagal films, mate. :rolleyes:

The Malaysian B747F is on Saturday morning, xpboy – about 10-ish usually.

The passenger flight on Sunday afternoon arrives about 16:30.

At weekend you can get the 201 bus at 25 past the hour from the Viewing Park to the Airport bus station – it goes back the other way at 15 past the hour. You’ll have no trouble finding the Terminal 1 multi-storey car park from there.

As for B747s….well, you can rely on the regulars like PIA, Air Atlanta, Dragonair, Cathay Pacific and Virgin.

The Singapore flight is a B777 on both days, but there’s a Malaysian B747F on Saturday morning and a passenger flight on Sunday afternoon.

Oh, and a China Airlines B747F on Sunday afternoon.

Does this help?