You're not wrong for having these thoughts, but it simply doesn't work that way.
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Originally Posted by Arya Stark
That is a terrible plan.
First, the cockpit is secure and you've landed. There were several people who didn't put their heads down and hands up. One even pointed a camera at them and was not even noticed. If your objective is to find a terrorist with a bomb is he really going to put his head down and hands up? Not a chance.
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These aren't highly trained counter terrorism soldiers. They're cops. Doesn't look like time allowed for a alternative to arrive. Not to take away from the PEEL regional police, they did a phenomenal job and obviously diffused this situation without harm to anybody. Also, what would you propse they do instead? You don't want to have a crowded plane just sit on the tarmac with someone claiming to have a bomb getting more and more agitated. I think they did the best thing given the situation. And obviously it worked.
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Originally Posted by Arya Stark
Also why wasn't he subdued before landing? Tie his hand behind his back and put him in his seat with his belt on. If the threat was that scary I'm sure a bunch of men would have volunteered to subdue him.
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Subdued by who? This comes up whenever there's an incident. 'Why didn't anyone tackle the gunman when he was reloading or something?' 'Why didn't a bunch of guys team together and tackle the crazy bomber on the plane?' It simply doesn't work like that. Pretend you're in a bank when a guy comes in and pulls a gun? Even if you think you'd sneak up behind him and intervene, you don't know that until you're in that situation and know how it feels.
How much information did these passengers even have? Did they know why the plane turned back?
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Originally Posted by Arya Stark
Just another over reaction after 9/11. It's not logical to think a man with a bomb will cooperate. He is more likely to detonate it if he sees men with guns coming for him
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If he's a well trained individual sure, but some bum with no such history is going to be pretty overwhelmed with a team of officers coming at him yelling with guns. And that was exactly the point of such a hard entry, to overwhelm the guy. And again, it clearly worked.
Like Acey said, it obviously sucks for the innocents on the plane. Nobody wants to be going on vacation and next thing you know armed officers are yelling at you. But you can't blame the cops for that, they did their jobs and protected those innocents. The 'bomber' is the one who put these people at risk.