I bet this is because of 9-11, who in their right mind wouldn’t try to rush someone who is trying to hijack a plane? Good to see people stand up and fight:

A man armed with two pistols hijacked an Air Mauritania flight Thursday but was subdued by two passengers, a Spanish official said.
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Reports differed on the hijacker’s nationality, with one senior Spanish government source saying he is Moroccan and Segura describing him as Mauritanian.
Abass Bass, a representative of the Mauritanian Embassy in Washington, described the incident as a “tentative hijacking.”
“The information we had from Mauritania is that the passengers fought back and they took the hijacker and now everything is OK,” Bass told CNN.
Bass said the flight had been scheduled to be an interior one, from the capital city of Nouakchott to Nouadhibou, in northern Mauritania, near Morocco.