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If people think the plane is about to be flown into a skyscraper, I'm not sure a gun will stop them. There are hundreds of people on a plane and at most twenty rounds in a gun. The math isn't in the terrorist's favor.

There also isn't room to get away from angry passengers. They're probably going to overwhelm terrorists with guns relatively quickly.



I don’t believe I’m making up this scenario. But here I go..

I would book a first class flight in the first seat in front of the plane. Make all of the first class passenger - fewer of them, probably wealthier business travelers who don’t think they are Rambo - move to the back of the cabin.

The aisle would be the perfect kill zone. I watched a documentary and they said SWAT training for taking over a plane from terrorist they know that whoever goes in first is likely to get shot.




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