Barry Eynon of Coopersburg, Pa., said in a phone interview that he was in the third row when another passsenger “saw this person trying to open the airplane door and trying to get into the cockpit.” The other passenger “jumped up and grabbed him from behind and yelled for help.”
Eynon said, “I jumped up and grabbed him from the front.”
Three or four other passengers also helped to subdue the man, putting him in a seat and ensuring he remained there, Eynon said.
Somebody ought to come up with a name for this surprisingly effective approach to security . . . .
UPDATE: Reader Richard Macklin writes:
It would be worth updating with a comparison of the Pack response to 9/11 and the Herd response to Katrina. Particularly looking at how much of the federal response is based on the expectation of a pack mentality and how that factored into the “failures” of FEMA.
Hmm. Good point.