THE travel industry complains that business is bad because people are frightened their plane might be hijacked. We wonder whether airlines would make things better or worse by taking up an idea patented 30 years ago by Jack Jensen from Fort Worth, Texas, which was unearthed recently by a colleague.
US patent 3841328 reveals his master plan. Every seat in the aircraft has an airbag concealed in the backrest. If the cabin crew think the passenger in seat 15A is behaving oddly, they can press a hidden remote-control button that sends a trigger signal to the seat. The bag rapidly…
