A long-overdue defense manual for airline passengers is now available. From WND, :
Responding to the air-travel anxieties since 9-11, an American Airlines pilot and two aviation security experts have compiled a book to help passengers and crew defend themselves in the case of a terrorist attack.
“Never Again” is a “self-defense guide for the flying public” with some 200 illustrations of hand-to-hand combat situations that could unfold in an airline cabin.
“Unless law enforcement is aboard, passengers and flight attendants are the first line of defense,” co-author Mark Bogosian told WorldNetDaily.
An American Airlines captain, Bogosian notes that prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, flight crews were trained to cooperate with hijackers, but the suicide operation that turned airliners into missiles changed everything.
“That scenario was never imagined or talked about in our training,” he said. …
Along with disarming tips – in case a terrorist was able to get a gun on board – it provides numerous self-defense moves, ways to take away a knife or box cutter and information about dozens of ordinary items in aircraft cabins that can be used to thrwart an attack.
Bogosian emphasizes, however, this is not a “whack ’em up” book, but a carefully measured approach to an attack that begins with analyzing the situation and using the standard levels of the “force continuum” employed by law enforcement.