Before 9/11, I *liked* flying cross-country. But after that it quickly became not only annoying, but physically painful as I was forever getting shoved into seats with nowhere near enough legroom. A flight a couple years back, after a gap of several years, convinced me that I was correct in my disdain for modern flying.

Then the Commie Cough comes along, and now you have to assume that you are going to catch whatever boogems are being spewed by all the other people trapped in that metal tube with you.

And *now* you have to worry about religious Antifa/BLM-worshipping nutjobs:

Unruly Passenger Forces Alaska Airlines A320 Back To Seattle

“I will kill everybody on this plane unless you accept Jesus was a black man.”

Special.

The feller, who at least wore his facemask, appears to be a white guy. There’s no zealot quite as zealous as the recent convert; I assume that this guy is therefore a convert to the religion of BLM. Flying out of Seattle, he may well have been one of those recent CHAZ/CHOP losers.

There is a video there of the incident that is well worth watching.

The other passengers react as well as you could expect… there doesn’t seem to be any panicking, but they do put a stop to the incident and everybody seems to remain reasonably calm and rational. The loon is put down by a pair of passengers *notably* bigger than he is. I hope the airline at least bought them some beers.

That said, “calm” and “rational” are sure to be personality traits that our cultural betters will soon tell us are inappropriate:

Co-founder of BLM Vancouver says that ‘reliability’ and ‘loyalty’ are white supremacist concepts

Vancouver is a stones-throw from Seattle. This is the same Vancouver that is criminally investigating the appearance of tire tracks on a cross-walk as a “hate crime”. Must be something in the water out there.

I expect that I will never again leave the surface of the Earth. For a former aerospace engineer who grew up wanting to be an astronaut and who earned a private pilots license… this realization seems a bit disconcerting.