What do I do if hijackers try to take over my airplane?

What do I do if hijackers try to take over my airplane?

Erroll Southers (Former Deputy Director of the California Department of Homeland Security) gives expert video advice on: What's the likelihood I'd be a victim of a hijacking?; Is there anything I can do to prevent a hijacking?; What do I do if hijackers try to take over my airplane?

In the case of a hijacking, if I were on the plane, about the only thing you could probably do is what they did on September 11th. People were able to try and make calls so people knew the plane was hijacked. You really want to, unless there's some way to come up with a plan as they did on one flight to take those people over, it's going to be really difficult to say what to do. Unless you've got the right training, the tough part about that is if you act alone and you've got an air marshall on a plane they don't know if you're one of the hijackers or one of the good guys. The other thing that's challenging about a hijacked plane is you may see 3 hijackers in the front of the plane, there could be 3 people part of that team that are in the back of the plane that haven't stood up. So if you decide to take on those hijackers, you may be taken out by other people on the plane that are their accomplices, so it's a very risky and tricky venture if you will. But a hijacked plane today, who knows what's going to happen to it, if it's going to be flown into a building or flown safely to a destination that you didn't plan on going to, that's a decision that an individual's going to have to make or a groups going to have to make with regards to whether we think we've got to act because we may die, and I can't tell you here and now how to make that decision because it's going to be as fluid and dynamic as what's happening when you're there at that moment.