Re: [NTLK] airports and Newts [Tangent: Amtrak]

From: Laurent Daudelin (nemesys_at_cox.rr.com)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2001 - 21:57:37 EDT


on 04/10/01 18:17, Ed Kummel at tech_ed_at_yahoo.com wrote:

> That's why my idea on hijacking is the best.
> All planes should have a fast acting sleeping gas
> hooked into the oxygen system on the plane. The minute
> some hijacker pounds on the bullet proof door to the
> cockpit and demands that they open the door, the
> entire cabin is immediatly flooded with gas.
> Everyone's out (except for the pilots, because the
> door is also vapor safe, and they would have masks
> anyway). The copilot goes out and binds the hijackers,
> and wakes them up and pushes them out a conveniently
> opened door! (25,000 foot drop!) ;-)

Hmmm, that makes sense, but what about decompression? If the co-pilot opens
a door at that altitude, half the passengers (and the co-pilot) will fly
through that door...

-Laurent.

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