As commenters here and elsewhere have noted, on 9/11/01 the “standard model” for airline hijackings – don’t put up a fight and wait for others to negotiate your safety – failed miserably and only too late was discarded on Flight 93, whose heroes learned via cell phone that no such negotiations were in the offing for them. And while some recent hijackings of big, slow-moving merchant vessels and the attendant kidnappings are a different kettle of fish, they are very similar in that they rely on the “compassion” of armed folks of various persuasions (folks in it for money, jihad, etc.) in regards to those unarmed ones in their custody. Not a good thing, relying on the mercy of the guys pointing guns at you, even if they have been relatively “benign” up to this point.