very encouraging, i'll have to carry on some "throwables" ... may be even
practice tossing the Mrs. and the ankle biter


"Raffi Balmanoukian" a
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wrote on 2/1/04 5:58 PM:

a passenger sitting next to you is nervously pushing a button inside his
coat pocket or is trying to light the soul of his shoe on fire in an
apparent attempt to blow the aircraft to pieces ... i mean is it
acceptable
etiquette to employ a karate chop to the neck or a roundhouse kick to
the
head ... please advise?!





I was on the first America-bound UA flight out of Melbourne after 9/11/01
(or 11/9/01 if you insist)....the pilot in command (who made a point of
coming through the cabin to talk to the pax, who naturally were mostly
American) had been hired by the PIC of the plane that crashed in
Pennsylvania. He didn't quite go this far, but one of his colleagues
apparently had some thoughts on this topic:

http://www.urbanlegends.com/ulz/pilot564.html