"The Needs of the Many......."

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If it hasn't happened already, a secret excutive order will be out soon. The U.S. should not offer an easy shot at another 9/11 (September 11, 2001) Operation Broken Wing sounds about right.

Since most aircraft can fly themselves pretty well once they are upstairs, and usually have good fuel reserves, it makes perfect sense to have a "bail out" button. The pilot presses the heavily fortified button, and the plane takes over the controls, until it receives an over-ride from a nearby fighter jet, which can either control the passenger jet, or return control to the pilot.

It is true that the terrorists could kill everyone on board, or even blow the plane up in mid air, but they would no longer have control of a flying bomb of hundreds of thousands of pounds moving at 500 mph and under their control. They would be flown to a remote air force base and the plane landed.

Yes, the passengers and crew are expendible in this scenerio, but it also means that they have the right to pig pile the terrorists much as appears to have happened on Flight 93, with "let's roll." Beamer and your fellow passengers, we all salute you one more time. Next time, knowing how Fight 93 worked, the passengers might win, and this would be one more reason for the terrorists not to try it. Terrorists are basically cowards.

Of course, for this autopilot bailout button to work as a deterrent, the terrorists need to know about it ahead of time. Of course, that will not meet the needs of money losing airline corporate America, so I guess it will have to happen at least once before we all find out about this, if we ever do.

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few..."

Spock of StarTrek

If there is enough fuel on board, and the terrorist have already killed the pasengers and crew, perhaps sending the plane in the direction of the Middle East would be a fitting solution, aim it at a Wahabi Mosque somewhere. Preferably one with Osama Bin Ladin in it.