If your plane was hijacked?

revell · 30-09-2011 10:56AM

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 · 30-09-2011 11:07AM

Snakeblood wrote: »

I have a bunny in a box, now what?

Turn Cyrus The Virus loose on the hijackers.

Voodoo_rasher · 30-09-2011 11:07AM

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 · 30-09-2011 11:57AM

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 · 30-09-2011 12:41PM

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

KTRIC · 30-09-2011 12:46PM

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 · 30-09-2011 01:09PM

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 · 30-09-2011 01:31PM

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 · 30-09-2011 01:40PM

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

Emiko · 30-09-2011 01:46PM

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 · 30-09-2011 01:48PM

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 · 30-09-2011 01:53PM

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 · 30-09-2011 03:15PM

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 · 30-09-2011 03:20PM

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 · 30-09-2011 03:37PM

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 · 30-09-2011 03:47PM

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 · 30-09-2011 03:50PM

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 · 30-09-2011 03:52PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

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

:pac:

Never.

revell · 30-09-2011 03:56PM

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 · 30-09-2011 03:59PM

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.

Thoie · 30-09-2011 04:08PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

I think you forgot to tell us what happened.

That was it. There were no terrorists, just people awed by name dropping.

weemcd · 30-09-2011 06:18PM

I don't know if I'd be brave enough to go for one of them first, I'd probably have to wait for someone else to make an attempt. If I was up - Kick to the bollix and two thumbs in the eyes for as many as i could get - I'd hope I'd have the courage to do so, better to go down swinging than wait until the plane is flown into a building or blown up etc. Chances would increase if there were other people on the plane willing to do so, but all you could probably do is look towards another few passengers and gesture without speaking. If there were say 5-6 men hijacking a plane, 3/4 men should be able to incapacitate or hold each of them down.

It's all well and good being a hero on an online forum though, who knows what would happen in real life, I'm sure if it was easy, not all the planes involved in the 9/11 attacks would have been taken over

Chuck Stone · 30-09-2011 06:30PM

weemcd wrote: »

I'm sure if it was easy, not all the planes involved in the 9/11 attacks would have been taken over

Everything changed that day. In the one aircraft that the passengers did rush the bad guys they realised that they needed to get control of the plane or they were dead.

I'm pretty sure that a forcefull response would be the reaction of many passengers these days.

Just recently:

http://www.newser.com/story/117113/staff-passengers-subdue-would-be-paris-hijacker.html

Flight staff and passengers tackled and subdued a would-be hijacker yesterday after he held a small knife to the throat of a flight attendant and ordered an Alitalia flight from Paris to fly to Tripoli. (24th April 2011)

Killer Pigeon · 30-09-2011 06:35PM

Seachmall wrote: »

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

Yeah, most Irish people would be like that.

CrazyRabbit · 30-09-2011 06:42PM

Possible terrorist hijackings are the reason I sneak a gun on to the plane with me.

pmcd22 · 30-09-2011 07:45PM

ya everyone is a hero in his head then it comes to crunch time and we chuck Norris there ass..

but really if someone was going around with a knife.. Think id ask another passanger that we jump him.. one focus on grabbing the knife while other kicks his ass..

Gun... doubt it.. might give it ago, sure whats the worse that could happen.