Originally Posted by
58November
I think it all should center around the Captain until such time as the Captain relinquishes command, voluntarily or otherwise.
All info should be given to the Captain period.
Obviously they are worried that the CA [cockpit] might be compromised or involved even. This is the type of thinking that evolves from trying to cover EVERY possible scenario.
Even in cases where hijackers were in the cockpit, not one captain has ever made a decision that cost an innocent life. Law enforcement does not have that track record.
I haven't studied every hijacking in even moderan airline travel - but this sentence seems strange.
IN the case of AA24, if law enforcement knew what they were doing, they would have started their search for people in the wheel-wells somewhere around the middle marker on approach.
I think he means that the bodies would have fallen out of the wheel wells around the MM
, though we know of people having actually made the trip (and surviving).