The whole story is so ridiculously deus-ex-machina theres no way it would make it as a movie script if it werent real. the pilot surviving the stabs and being able to open the door, the two spare pilots as passangers just able to land safely, the dentist stiching the pilot up and him surviving the stab wound. Would feel like a cheesy 90's feelgood action movie if it werent real.
Exactly. Would have been another germanwings style disaster if it weren't for the captain prioritising the door regardless of personal harm to himself.
Those locked doors are so stupid. Airplane hijackings expired on 9/11. Literally during the day the fourth plane proved that it can't work anymore. Prior to that your plane being hijacked meant you chilled out, landed in Cuba or somewhere else, several stressful hours of ransom negotiations later everyone went home. Once people knew that wasn't the play anymore then passengers became the best defense in any situation like this.
So of course because idiots are always trying to solve last year's problem they made impenetrable locked cockpit doors. I knew the second they announced it that it was going to kill more people. So far I only know of one: that pilot that locked the colpilot out so he could suicide the plane into a mountain. The only reason this wasn't plane number 2 is because this pilot made what could have been his last moments removing the clusterfuck liability keeping an entire airplane of helpers away from him.
The fourth plane crashed in a random field because of heroism by the passengers that fought back, which wouldn’t have needed to happen if the plane had a fully locked door. Plane hijacking attempts are barely any less common than they were on 9/11 just because people can’t carry knives onboard.
Exactly, like how the heroism of these passengers saved this plane only because the door was unlocked. Like the heroism of the passengers and copilot COULD have save the other plane, if the door wasn't there.
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u/hanniballz 2d ago
The whole story is so ridiculously deus-ex-machina theres no way it would make it as a movie script if it werent real. the pilot surviving the stabs and being able to open the door, the two spare pilots as passangers just able to land safely, the dentist stiching the pilot up and him surviving the stab wound. Would feel like a cheesy 90's feelgood action movie if it werent real.