Hijack Senario

[Francisp]

I'm not very good a this but bear with me please.

You are on Board a Boeing 707 Cross country (U.S.) Three Arabic looking males with (3ceramic knives) grab the stewardess and stab her near fatally with a ceramic knife that has gotten through the medal detector (God forbid). You are in a window seat in coach. One of the Arabs is at the rear of your comparment. The other is guarding the cockpit. The pilots have been killed (This plane had not yet had the steel door upgrade) and the third man is piloting the plane. They have not told you where you are going. You don't have ANY thing that is designed as a weapon. You have a coke infront of you and the woman next to you has a coffee in her hand. You have a large Texas style belt buckle on your belt around your blue jeans. You are wearing your Montana walking shoes. The woman next to you is wearing a ring with a large diamond on it (Any G.Gordon Liddy fans would know what to do with that ). You have a set of Ray Ban aviator sunglasses in your left breast pocket. Have at it gents.

 

[JGardnerA]

I'm going to assume that only the guy guarding the cockpit has a knife.

The guy at the back would have to go first, maybe by knocking him out with the belt buckle. Then I'd rush the cockpit with several other people. We'd throw lots of stuff at him (books, laptops, belt buckle) and maybe use the coffee on his face. Then I'd go with several others in the cockpit and take care of the last one, using whatever we had.

 

[bae]

I figure that by the time I get out of my coach window seat, the rest of the passengers will have dismembered the hijackers with their bare hands, and I can help clean up the mess and perhaps pilot the plane.

 

[Francisp]

I'm surprised that I got so few responses.

 

[Hayate]

First, I examine if anything can be used as a weapon. Breaking the sunglasses could provide me with a sharp edge or spike, for example. I use a belt by holding one end in either fist, allowing almost any technique possible with bare hands and some extras...
Then I try to convince the woman next to me to pretend unconsciousness and "accidentally" fall out of her seat, thus clearing my way out and attracting the terrorist behind, whom I subsequently take out.
Without communicating to the passengers near the cockpit, taking down the guard there will result in some casualties, but I don´t know how that can be avoided.

 

[Chiburi]

I'd try the Wesley Snipes -act
First, I'd probably drink the coke and the coffee.Then it engage the guy in the bag using my Nokia 6310 mobile phone as a bo-shuriken.When I have him confused what the heck hit him, I'd go take him down, tie him up, stuck a bandage roll (or the coke can) in his mouth. I'd check if my mobile phone still works (Very durable these new Nokias!), take his knife and engage the next jackass.I'd use a fire extinguisher to calm down the other "terrorist", if you may, bound him unconscious,and tie him up etc. Then I'd use the intercomm to praise Allah and maybe sing some folksongs that will confuse the cockpit terrorist to believe that
his God is talking to him.I'd encourage to come out of the cockpit, throw away his knife, and go inside one of the toilet cabins (the sacred room of a highly qualified follower of Allah(TM)),lock him inside with his mates (the two arabs I've already tied up). I'd keep the ceramic knife as a souvenir and add it into my collection.. .
No offense to anyone, I'd figure out what to do WHEN somebody actually hijacks my flight. Probably by then the airline companies have decided to put undercover security agents among the passengers.