"The goal of the group... is to provide public education and training to assist in thwarting crime and terrorism."
"Passengers should do everything they can to prevent the cockpit from being breached."
"They emphasize that passengers should act only under the instructions of uniformed flight crew to assist them or act only if the flight crew is incapacitated."
Sitting in a shuttle in earth orbit, you hear the voice of Capt. Kirk: "Welcome ladies and gentlemen to flight 555 TransWorld Airlines. After one more orbit of the earth we will slingshot to the moon, arriving in 7 days. We realize that many of you are concerned with terrorists. And we know that none of you are armed. I'm confident you'll think of something. The training we gave you is very important. You must, at all costs, stop anyone who tries to enter the cockpit. You must save me, Capt Kirk!! And of course, ahem, yourself and fellow passengers. Cough cough. The government won't protect you and neither will TransWorld Airlines. It's up to you."
Ok, satire aside. Protect myself with no weapon, save the plane and passengers and self.
I'd do it. Once again it boils down to personal responsibility for self safety. But give me a weapon!! And give me a reduced fare, damnit!! And wait until a stewardess tells me to act? I don't think so.
I wonder:
if they taught those folks how to improvise weapons.
what the airlines official position is on this.
what the gov't officially thinks about this.
Please put your head between your legs and kiss your ass good bye, 'cause you're expected to defend an aircraft while unarmed.