[Imagination Club] How to avoid plane hijacks

[John Tunney]

The sleeping idea would be great for nervous passengers too. Put bluntly, if 
the plane crashes you don't know about it :)

Two thoughts on the problem:

1) Remote-controlled planes.
2) Or a 'panic button' for the pilot that switches the plane to remote 
control.

The following ideas are a bit controversial and although they don't directly 
address the problem of hijacks they would help airlines to encourage 
passengers nervous about hijacks to fly again:

1) Women-only flights.
2) Flights where the plane passengers have to be the nationality of the 
country the plane is departing from.

and less controversial: flights for (very) frequent flyers only.






From: "Jeffrey Baumgartner" <jeffreyb at jpb.com>
Reply-To: Imagination Club <imagine at lists.supertrade.com>
To: "Inder" <inders at braahmam.net>,Imagination Club 
<imagine at lists.supertrade.com>
Subject: Re: [Imagination Club] How to avoid plane hijacks
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:45:41 +0200

Hello Inder and thanks for the great challenge!

A couple of ideas come to mind...

1) Prohibit any carry-on luggage and require that
passengers fly naked. That would prevent anyone from
sneaking a weapon on board. If people are shy, perhaps the
airline could provide swim-suits.

2) Build an ejector-seat like mechanism in the floor
between the passenger cabin and the crew cabin. A push of a
button by the crew would eject anyone, who is standing by
the door to the crew cabin, into the sky.

3) Just before boarding time, give everyone a sleeping drug
so they fall asleep. Then put them in stacked cots inside
the aeroplane. Since everyone would be asleep, no one could
hijack the plane. In fact, sleeping through a long flight
is about the best way to endure a long flight. Moreover,
airlines could save money on meals, in-flight movies and
other services as well as avoid air rage, rude passengers
and other trouble makers.

Jeffrey Baumgartner

On 17 Oct 2005 at 16:44, Inder wrote:

 > Hi All!
 > I am new in this forum. I have read many challenges & ideas
 > of people here. So i'm also inspired by them posting a
 > challenge in front of you.
 >
 > 'Can you suggest the ways by which we can stop or minimize
 > the plane hijacks. It is one of the most serious issues
 > nowadays the human society is facing.'
 >
 > thanks n rgds
 > inder
 >
 > _______________________________________________
 > Imagination Club is an e-mail based discussion forum for
 > playing with ideas.
 >
 > To unsubscribe, go to
 > http://lists.supertrade.com/mailman/listinfo/imagine or send
 > an e-mail to supertrade-request at lists.supertrade.com with
 > unsubscribe in the message subject.
 >
 > For more information, visit http://www.jpb.com/imagination/
 >


_______________________________________________
Imagination Club is an e-mail based discussion forum for playing with ideas.

To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.supertrade.com/mailman/listinfo/imagine 
or send an e-mail to supertrade-request at lists.supertrade.com with 
unsubscribe in the message subject.

For more information, visit http://www.jpb.com/imagination/