Originally Posted by
Denti
Yeah, that works really well. Not. We had already an incident in germany where an FA thought the remaining pilot did something wrong (he followed an ATC descend clearance) and forcibly tried to remove him from the controls, including blows to the head. It was hushed up, but played a role in discontinuing this useless and frankly dangerous procedure under the circumstances in europe.
FAs are not psychologists, pilots, police or anything else, they are just persons who, after a very rudimentary 4 weeks training course, are allowed to work on planes, safely on the other side of the flightdeck door. Nowadays in large percentages with an eastern european or middle east/islamic background.
US FA's are routinely alone with one pilot. All they have to do is open the door.
As far as those with middle east/islamic...yeah I guess that's a tough one. You'd have to be pretty sure of your background checks.