What do you think about this?

The "no threat of terrorism" was made AFTER the airplane landed and everything was investigated, so until that time it was SUSPECTED and therefore they followed established emergency procedures to prevent a catastrophy.

The article does not have ANY real details of what happened, so we have to believe that these personnel, who we there and not here on a list second-guessing something that we have no idea about, acted in accordance with their training and in the best interest of the public. If there were no real issue, the authorities would not be charging this person with anything, but they are, so she must have done something.

Lastly, a small gun CAN NOT IN ANY WAY cause an explosive decompression of an airplane. Even Mythbusters proved that one.

I read the article. I also read some of the other answers. I'm going to address some of thoes in my answer too.

First of all, Air marshalls are supposed to remain as observers until something really get out of control. If the air marshall didn't identify himself obviously it wasn't that big of a threat. Second, the use fragible bullets and go through extensive training.... needless to say, they are pretty good shots. but if for some reason they missed their intended target and hit a window or the fuslage, IF the round even punctured, all that would happen would be a rapid decompression causing the oxygen masks to deploy and at that point they would get an indication in the cockpit and initiate a rapid descent to a safe altitude. the aircraft would not explode or tear any huge holes open. If the lady on the flight really did have a screwdriver or some kind of weapon, and was making threats, the other passengers would have definatly subdued her.Think about it, are you just gonna sit there and do nothing? I think not. Also if you read the article, the security director at Logan denied that she had any of that stuff. here are a few quotes from the article....

"The federal security official for Logan said there was no indication of terrorism and denied reports that the woman had a screw driver, matches and a note referring to al-Qaida."

"I don't know what she had on board with her, but we have been told she did not have a screw driver, she did not have any liquids such as Vaseline, and any notebook she may have had, it did not contain an al-Qaida reference," Naccara said. "This is still playing out, of course."

"There was speculation in the beginning of all those items, but those have been proven untrue," he said. He said he had no information about matches."

Hope this clears things up a little bit.

They were stopping liquids so they forgot to check for the real objects I guess.

Distraught passengers, screw drivers, matches, Vaseline, and notes referencing al-Qaida will never be allowed onto aircraft again.

Some people really do not think.

You can't fire a gun on a plan, or you risk puncturing the fuselage and depressurizing it. The person is obviously pretty messed up though. How did they get that stuff on the plane?

I think the air marshalls should have just shot her and continued the flight. Why "put out" the other 181 passengers?

Home land security department is run by freaky morons who are ruining the time. i hate them and they dont have any right to call them selves americans

Crazy people is what I think. Just shoot anyone that does anything like this. Then, less and less people will try stunts like this. Solves problems very easily.

Behaviour speaks loudly.

Looks like that passenger was up to NO GOOD.

you dont know i dont know they dont know who cares. I think its just called showing POWER are you terrified over it makes them terrorist now hey they sacred you. see how easy that word can be used. And of course they want to show they did something lol