[Blacdout96]

it's not just terrorists that would try to bring a weapon on. what about someone who's brought somethign like that just to make his name famous, or to kill for the hell of it ( before you say he would be caught, yes he would, but the there's a death that has already taken place on the plane) A fight that breaks out between two individuals that got nasty, or someone who just plain goes off the deep end. There's no need to take a weapon on the plane, if it takes a weapon to take down one person on a 100+ passenger flight, then you are in no way resourceful. If a guy can take an entire plane hostage with a knife, or pepper spray, or some small weapon, then the passengers are weak, sometimes you have to put your life on the line to save another, or a few, or a few thousand. I feel that maybe the flight attendants should be trained to handle a situation like this now, even though it's still rare, something that shouldnt be out of the question.