Silly behaviour on Airplanes nearly everyone is a terrorist

Those individuals charged with the responsibility for keeping air travel safe .... have turned into cowering chicken-poopers.  <== ad-homenim     The idea of what a "reasonable man" would do has been turned on it's head.  No longer do humans forge bravely forward ...... instead they consult ... and turn back.  The snippet below demonstrates how low this has gone.  I suspect many reading the snippet will agree with the pilot.  Not I.... A planeload of passengers versus a slapper..... really .... this is no contest.

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 Turn this plane around

A fight breaks out in-flight over a reclined seat. The crew opts to return to the D.C. airport. Overreaction?

By Patrick Smith

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I'm expected to say something about last week's in-flight rumble aboard a United Airlines flight headed from Washington, D.C., to Accra, Ghana.
When a flight broke out on Flight UA 990 shortly after takeoff -- apparently over a reclined seat -- the crew elected to return to Dulles Airport, and did so under escort from a pair of F-16 fighters, dumping thousands of gallons of jet fuel along the way.
For airlines, diversions like this are a logistical nightmare, and the trickle-down costs can run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. You've got fuel costs, crew costs, passenger rebooking and misconnect costs, and so forth. Not only was the outbound flight to Accra delayed, but the return flight as well, affecting hundreds of people.
Considering the stakes, the question people are asking is this one: Was the return really necessary? Couldn't they have just kept going rather than inconveniencing everybody else on the plane?