Passenger attacks pilot with axe

[troy]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1503&ncid=1503&e=2&u=/afp/20040929/ts_afp/norway_transport_air

 

[pilotman2105]

As far as we can tell he is psychologically unstable," Vangen said...

And the SOB will get off because of that.

Gotta love this world that we live in.

 

[BD King]

If they had crashed, would it have been an axedent?

 

[Metro752]

So now these viking hippies will probably get theirs next. I guess a SAS A340 going to Ibiza~!

 

[dseagrav]

Whacko gets crash axe, goes whacking?

I bet the TSA uses this as an excuse to take your crash axes.

But hey, look at it this way - When you die trapped inside the crashed remains of the airplane, you can rest easy knowing that your death was due to the noble cause of fighting the war on terror!

 

[TonyC]

I bet the TSA uses this as an excuse to take your crash axes.

Thankfully, the lack of security might play in our favor this time:

Police first suspected that the man had used a security hatchet already onboard the plane in the attack, but by Wednesday afternoon it was clear that he had smuggled an axe onto the plane with him.



"At first we thought that it was the hatchet onboard but we are no longer of this opinion because that hatchet is still in its place in the cockpit," Vangen said.



According to Nils Rognli, who heads up the Narvik airport for the Norwegian civil aviation authority Avinor, it would not have been difficult for the attacker to smuggle an axe onto the plane.



"It would be very simple since we don't have any security control here in Narvik," he told AFP.

We have "the good, old fashioned system as it was in the past where you just get on the plane", he added, pointing out that he has the equipment needed for security screening, but that it has not yet been installed.

 

[dseagrav]

Thankfully, the lack of security might play in our favor this time:

Oh, OK. Much better. I read this news from an article on another website, and they didn't mention this bit. I really hated the idea that he got the crash axe away from the crew.

 

[NEDude]

Let's see, a 19 PAX airplane with (from what I remember) no locking, secure cockpit door. How long before TSA puts the 1900s to death?