On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:27:52 GMT, "Jim," wrote:

John H wrote:

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:02:09 -0500, thunder wrote:


On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:46:02 -0500, John H wrote:


How was it easily preventable, Mr. Huddleston?

As the hijackers used nothing more than knives and box-cutters, a simple
cockpit bulkhead would have prevented that particular attack. Yes?


Only if we had a policy of allowing stewardesses to be killed to prevent a
hijacking. Did we have such a policy?

At the time it wold have been an airline policy, subject to
interpretation of the Captain. I'd like to think that if I were
captain, I would not sacrifice my plane and passengers for a stewardess.
(yes i would feel guilty about the decision, and it would bother me for
quite a while, but as with a ship captain, the safety of the vessel and
passengers comes before one of the crew.

At the time it was *not* the policy to allow the throat-slitting of stewardesses
to prevent a hijacking.

At the time, you would have had no reason to think your aircraft was about to be
used as a missile.

John H