Don't get me wrong people, if I'd have been on the plane I'd have be baying for him to be knocked unconscious and stuffed in the toilet. If I'd been the guy in seat 18C I may well have done that to him myself.

But putting myself in the pilots shoes, I can see how saying that he'd be handed to security on arrival may have seemed like a good way to calm the situation down. You could argue that, since the situation was successfully defused, it worked.