If your plane was hijacked?

Paddy Samurai

Another pub discussion last night...........

Probably unlikely in most countries due to all the security .But just wondering after 9/11 what would people do?. Obviously the goalposts are now changed. Pre 9/11 hostages would keep their heads down and hope to survive it. As there was a good chance that the hijackers were asylum seekers ,or wanted prisoner release(ie:not suicide types).
So if it happened to you ,do people reckon their best chance would be to rush the hijackers as soon as someone utters the word hijack. Or would you be the type to wait and see what happens?.

Our conclusion after many beers,was rush the cockpit to protect the pilot.................and get shot mistaken as terrorists:D


Are there official guidelines/advice anywhere,on what to do if hijacked?.They have guidelines for everything else.

Seachmall

Nobody would do shit until positive it's a suicide bomber, then maybe they'd do something.

Everyone's a hero in their head.

phasers

Open the door, grab a terrorist and jump out

Micky Dolenz

Seachmall wrote: »

Nobody would do shit until positive it's a suicide bomber, then maybe they'd do something.

Everyone's a hero in their head.

Pretty sure thats untrue. Collectively people would panic and go a bit mental I suspect. The result would probably be the plane coming down.

Fratton Fred

If the flight was taking me off on holiday, I'd become a pissed one man killing machine, making Van Damme, Norris and Stallone look like the tooth fairy.

If the flight was taking me back from holiday to my life of working all day in a miserable job just to pay my mortgage and taxes, **** it, they can do what they like.

Chuck Stone

Seachmall wrote: »

Nobody would do shit until positive it's a suicide bomber, then maybe they'd do something.

Everyone's a hero in their head.

I disagree.

If it was a suicide bomber then you'd know nothing about it.

If they were trying to gain access to the cockpit then they'd need to be stopped.

I really think any hijack attempts these days would be met with serious passenger violence (I know I would be up for a bit of skull cracking anyway)

MonsterCookie

In all honesty, I'd probably **** myself first and foremost.:eek:

If there was time to go through the range of emotions, I'd get angry at some stage but would probably keep the head down and hope for the best if I thought they were not suicide types.

If I felt they were going to do a 9/11 I'd try to get a posse together to rush the bastards.:mad:

I guess one makes decisions based on the information in front of them.

martic

Open a facebook group stating if 1 million people like this group the terrorist wont blow the plane up

MagicSean

I like to think I'd wait for a hijacker to have his back to me and attack him with the aim of killing him by whatever means I could. I would just hope that other passengers would follow my lead. I think I'd just assume I was going to die if i did nothing.

simonmln

Cut the rope beside me, Segall style, and watch a big pipe in the perfect shape, fall to take out every terrorist and no one else.

xzanti

I'd rush the booze trolly...

Anaesthetise myself.

MonsterCookie

Fratton Fred wrote: »

If the flight was taking me off on holiday, I'd become a pissed one man killing machine, making Van Damme, Norris and Stallone look like the tooth fairy.

If the flight was taking me back from holiday to my life of working all day in a miserable job just to pay my mortgage and taxes, **** it, they can do what they like.

I thought Norris was a fairy? Oh no, you mean Chuck Norris...:P

Sky King

I would change my transponder code to 7500, indicating unlawful interference to ATC.

misty floyd

I'd press the flight attendent button overhead and get her/him to deal with it.

kennethsmyth

Sky King wrote: »

I would change my transponder code to 7500, indicating unlawful interference to ATC.

Ehhh... so you'd basically tell air trafic control we have a hijack situation and that even if we get the hijackers theres a chance your own country would shoot down the plane. Hmmm... methinks i wouldnt say anything until situation under control.:rolleyes:

LeeHoffmann

So I'm just sitting there reading my inflight magazine and a gang of people start screaming 'nobody move' while pointing big guns around...flight attendants, passengers and babies are screaming, a couple of people running up the aisle, some unfortunates getting pushed out of the toilets with their trousers still round their ankles....what would I do? In all honesty, I think it would take a few seconds to take all this sudden unexpected madness in. I'm assuming the hijackers would confiscate all phones, tie us to seats or something and a couple stay to guard us while the rest take over the cockpit. In this scenario, I don't see that there's much I can do. If they take our phones, I can't warn anyone; if I'm tied up, I can't attack anyone. I'd love to be a hero but I don't see how yet. If the hijackers are thick enough to leave passengers untied and with their phones, then we've plenty of options - but this just seems like too sloppy preparation for a hijack in this day and age

...however if when the gang came running out with guns yelling 'nobody move', some person/people had the wits about them to tackle them and passengers and hijackers were battling for control of the plane, I'd help out however I could. I think we'd see a 50/50 split between helping out and hiding out

Deus Ex Machina

I think anybody stupid enough to attempt that lark again would be strawberry jam within minutes, and deservedly so.

Dravokivich

Depends on what they are trying to hold up the plane with, what if they only managed to sneak in with forks?

Orando Broom

I'd give them my wallet. It's simply not worth it.

GavRedKing

The chances of getting guns on most planes now a days is highly unlikely, but if by the off chance a group of hijackers have guns there is nothing you can do really.

Chuck Stone

gavredking wrote: »

if a group of hijackers have guns there is nothing you can do really.

You could dress up as a sexy rabbit and seduce them and while their gaurd was down you could hit them over the haed with a big frying pan.

sbsquarepants

Anybody trying to hijack a passenger plane is not going to be terribly well armed, security is too tight these days. They most likely won't be able to get into the cockpit. If they actually had a bomb they'd just set it off, not threaten too - so they wouldn't have a bomb either. So it really just boils down to maths - 4 or 5 badly armed hijackers versus 100 or 200 passengers. It's a fúcking no brainer.
But it does pose the question, who are the next group of hijackers? Seems to me the likely answer is they are either training to be pilots, or already actual pilots, working for actual airlines, or freight carriers most likely, waiting for the call from whoever to swing their plane into some building or other. It's bound to happen again i reckon. There's no stopping fanatics!

giles lynchwood

I always fly first class,so i don´t have to worry about such things

OldGoat

Kobayashi Maru solution: Stick to RyanAir as hijackers can't afford to pay the extra charges for bringing on guns/gaffa tape/stanley knives/exploding shoe laces.

JoePie

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Anybody trying to hijack a passenger plane is not going to be terribly well armed, security is too tight these days. They most likely won't be able to get into the cockpit. If they actually had a bomb they'd just set it off, not threaten too - so they wouldn't have a bomb either. So it really just boils down to maths - 4 or 5 badly armed hijackers versus 100 or 200 passengers. It's a fúcking no brainer.
But it does pose the question, who are the next group of hijackers? Seems to me the likely answer is they are either training to be pilots, or already actual pilots, working for actual airlines, or freight carriers most likely, waiting for the call from whoever to swing their plane into some building or other. It's bound to happen again i reckon. There's no stopping fanatics!

Captain Bringdown.

I'd make sure I always have Harrison Ford with me when I'm flying so he could tell people to "GET OFF MY PLANE."

revell

Chuck Stone wrote: »

You could dress up as a sexy rabbit and seduce them and while their gaurd was down you could hit them over the haed with a big frying pan.

which moovie is this?

revell

giles lynchwood wrote: »

I always fly first class,so i don´t have to worry about such things

so you are a high-value hostage ya:D

Chuck Stone

revell wrote: »

which moovie is this?

It's what Bugs Bunny does when Elmer Fudd has a gun pointed at him and might I add that it works every - single - time.

http://www.geocities.ws/karenspecial/images/comics/bugs/rabbitseasoning.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2djHEIxPVs

Snakeblood

Orando Broom wrote: »

I'd give them my wallet. It's simply not worth it.

I'd give them his wallet.

JerryHandbag

There was a DVD out a few years back that instructs passengers how to deal with this scenario.

I think it was called "Con Air".

Snakeblood

JerryHandbag wrote: »

There was a DVD out a few years back that instructs passengers how to deal with this scenario.

I think it was called "Con Air".

I have a bunny in a box, now what?

revell

JerryHandbag wrote: »

There was a DVD out a few years back that instructs passengers how to deal with this scenario.

I think it was called "Con Air".

love this moovie
it actually tells you, unless you are the leading actor, do not do anything stupid

JerryHandbag

Snakeblood wrote: »

I have a bunny in a box, now what?

Turn Cyrus The Virus loose on the hijackers.

Voodoo_rasher

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

Another pub discussion last night...........

Probably unlikely in most countries due to all the security .But just wondering after 9/11 what would people do?. Obviously the goalposts are now changed. Pre 9/11 hostages would keep their heads down and hope to survive it. As there was a good chance that the hijackers were asylum seekers ,or wanted prisoner release(ie:not suicide types).
So if it happened to you ,do people reckon their best chance would be to rush the hijackers as soon as someone utters the word hijack. Or would you be the type to wait and see what happens?.

attempt to out-stare 'Abdulla of Manulla , head-butt him then fart in his face ha ha. as for Bohola Lola in her Burqa, well i must think about that one since burqas can conceal any number of thing---grenades etc

Paddy Samurai

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I really think any hijack attempts these days would be met with serious passenger violence (I know I would be up for a bit of skull cracking anyway)

Someone mentioned, about hostage takers expecting resistance in the first few minutes, and usually make an example out of someone by using extreme violent to cower the remaining hostages.
So you would probably need to psyche yourself up as your getting on the plane.Keep muttering to yourself ...."Kill the B@stards!",and punching yourself on the head to get your adrenaline going.:D

ejmaztec

I'd blow the fuckers up with my shoe-bomb. No-one's going to steal my limelight.:mad:

KTRIC

I'd go at them hell for leather, what have you got to loose. I plane full of people could easily over power a couple of terrorists.

Also a well placed punch can easily bring down someone, its not like in the movies where they stand there and act all hard. Terrorists are people too that feel pain and fear.

Lando Griffin

I would pre-empt the hijacking in the airport and have the evil doers apprehended even before they got on the Airplane.
Then I would washboard them until they admited what they were going at and transport them through Shannon to a place of holding, until they give more information about others who are in their organisation against democracy and freedom.

Voodoo_rasher

Lando Griffin wrote: »

I would pre-empt the hijacking in the airport and have the evil doers apprehended even before they got on the Airplane.
Then I would washboard them until they admited what they were going at and transport them through Shannon to a place of holding, until they give more information about others who are in their organisation against democracy and freedom.

washboard? Get da ironing board out , stretch him/burqa lady out on it and give that individual a good going over with the cotton-setting..ha ha. will then admit to anything ; )

Alter-Ego

Earphones in. "not happening, not happening, not happening".

Emiko

I remember reading somewhere where a good strategy to slow the hijackers down, is to lie down in the aisle, hold on to the seats and kick at the hijackers with your legs, making it very difficult for them to move up the aisle.

This would give your fellow heroes time to borrow some pens from other passengers and, thus armed, try to stab the villains in the ear or carotid artery, the pen being mightier than the sword and all that.

JazzyJ

I was on a flight in the US about a month after 9/11 with the football team I was playing with at the time, and a lad in a turban got up in the middle of the flight and started walking towards the cockpit. Once a few of the lads copped this they were up out of their seats following him up. Lucky for him he was only going to the jacks that were beside the cockpit!

Cue 4 or 5 lads suddenly stranded in the middle of the plane turning around sheepishly back to their seats.

cosmicfart

If its a male terrorist id knee him were it hurts...in the cockpit.

if its a female terrorist id knee her were it hurts...in the fuselage.

revell

JazzyJ wrote: »

I was on a flight in the US about a month after 9/11 with the football team I was playing with at the time, and a lad in a turban got up in the middle of the flight and started walking towards the cockpit. Once a few of the lads copped this they were up out of their seats following him up. Lucky for him he was only going to the jacks that were beside the cockpit!

Cue 4 or 5 lads suddenly stranded in the middle of the plane turning around sheepishly back to their seats.

lucky you...he might be a terro but just deterred by your friends' action

Immaculate Pasta

If a plane I was on was hijacked, I'd like to try and join the Mile High Club if I could, I bet there'd be some right up for it slags on board if we only had a few minutes left to live :cool:

ejmaztec

I'd just wait for the big fat Delta Force guy/part-time chef to come out of the galley, and I'd read about all the duty-free items that I couldn't afford to buy, while he's pummelling 17 buckets of sh1t out of the terrorists.

Biggins

If my plane was hi-jacked I HOPE I would remain calm enough to assess the situation.
If it looked like a suicide job and/or he/she/they were trying to get into the cockpit, I HOPE I would find the nerve to do something.
I'm a stubborn, thick headed sod at times and don't believe in letting gobschites away with crap.
I hope I would have the courage to do something that might save other lives.

ejmaztec

Biggins wrote: »

If my plane was hi-jacked I HOPE I would remain calm enough to assess the situation.
If it looked like a suicide job and/or he/she/they were trying to get into the cockpit, I HOPE I would find the nerve to do something.
I'm a stubborn, thick headed sod at times and don't believe in letting gobschites away with crap.
I hope I would have the courage to do something that might save other lives.

Of course, failing that, you could just bend over.



:pac:

Biggins

ejmaztec wrote: »

Of course, failing that, you could just bend over.

:pac:

Never.

revell

It did happen in one of my trip while I was chatting with Arnold in the first class. Sylvester was in the toilet at that moment I remember. Harrison was in the kitchen and flirting with one a cute air hostess. Steven was sleeping in the seat behind me but I know he is always on high alert even asleep...:D

ejmaztec

revell wrote: »

It did happen in one of my trip while I was chatting with Arnold in the first class. Sylvester was in the toilet at that moment I remember. Harrison was in the kitchen and flirting with one a cute air hostess. Steven was sleeping in the seat behind me but I know he is always on high alert even asleep...:D

I think you forgot to tell us what happened.