Anyone who knows commercial aircaft will not agree with you... well the smart ones will.
Unless ALL of your bullets hit the target and do not over penetrate you RISK serious problems...... someone may be a good shot... untill passengers panic..... or untill as you squeeze you hit turbulance...
Have a round fo through the floor and risk hitting a presurized fire bottle(s), pressureized O2 that will blow a huge hole in the side of the plane, hit a tire and again blow a huge hole in the plane. Could also hit hydraulic pumps...... take those out on an Airbus and the only think you can fly with now is diferential engine trust and that landing will not be pretty.
Have one go forward and there is a 90% or so chance it will hit electrical systems and circuit breakers that could make the aircraft very hard to fly.... no to mention it also being very easy that that round hits a body up in that tiny cockpit.......
Towards the back you have the aft pressure buckhead and other critical flight control suff...... hitting that stuff is never good.
Even people with training will tell you that shooting a gun in an aircraft is very dangerous...... frangable ammo helps and you can say that the Air Marshals have the training and the millitary but when is the last time they ever fired a gun inside an aircraft the was flying? Last I checked never.
On the crew after 9-11 you will never see a pilot come out of the cockpit in flight on a large aircraft..... good luck knocking the new doors down they are tanks.... regardless of what is happening they will not open that door and will get it landed ASAP....... With how tires flight attendants and crews are and with how on edge they are I would rathe them not be armed to be honest.
People think that having guns on an airplane is simple with no risk and it is really not but it is a free country and if that is what you want then have at it but passengers with guns will never ever happen.
This is perhaps the best refutation of the Mythbusters segment on explosive decompression (busted) I've seen yet. Thank you for posting it. You've given me some food for thought.
I realize that armed passengers won't happen, I just said (before) that it would be safer.
OK, so... given that TSA provides no real safety, just the theatrical illusion of it and given the above as reasoning why armed passengers might not be a workable plan either, what would you, as someone in the industry, recommend as a way to make flying safer for everyone? (Yes, I know freedom trumps safety and of course the Franklin quote about liberty and security. I further know that while government has no business preventing people from flying armed, the airlines, being privately owned, would be completely within their rights to forbid armed travelers because there is no right to board an aircraft, esp. when it is not your property.
I am interested in your reply.
Thanks again for this one. Rep inbound on runway 1-5 Left.
Blessings,
Bill