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Now there's a really stupid idea.
Do you have to ask the person what the number is on their bracelet so that you don't taze the entire plane? Well, or do you taze the entire plane because one idiot decides to question authority, or some fat agent sits on the damn remote and triggers the tazing...
How long until the hackers figure out the frequencies and make their own 'black boxes' to trigger them during the flight. Does the flight crew wear them too? What about the agent? They could 'snap' too...
Why not just drug people and stack them on pallets. Wouldn't it be easier? The airlines would save money on food and flight attendants and troublemaking drunk women from New Jersey...