I think given the current status of reinforced doors and the fact that all passengers on the former would react suspiciously towards anyone they deemed harmful to their safety that I’d be fine with the former.
There was a long time in the aviation industry where during a hijacking you were supposed to sit quietly, let them fly you to Cuba, and then the airline or government would get everyone home safely. Terrorists got to get free airline miles and attention without much harm.
September 11th changed all that and made passengers realize that terrorists would just as likely crash the plane into a building and kill everyone anyway, might as well just limit the damage and take your chances of ten guys versus two hundred and actually have a chance of getting out of this.
However, given the fact that we will never, ever, ever get back to that point (excepting the case of private aircraft, which have so much leeway), this is a ridiculous question.
