If you have plain clothed police on board, it doesn't escalate to a hostage
getting killed every 20 seconds, and hijackings would come to a halt.
Because terrorists usually travel in groups of two or three, have that many
officers on each plane.
Brian
At 10:01 AM 09/12/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Here's my take on that. Smart terrorist would know about the gas and
>bring a gas
>mask. The treaten to kill a hostage every 20sec until the cockpit is opened.
>
>Jay W
>
>jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
>
> >
> > Also, and this one is even more obvious... Why is it possible for the
> > bulkhead between the cabin and the pilots to be breached? If the
> > hijackers can't get into the cabin, the plane isn't going anywhere.
> > I seem to recall several years back Paul Harvey was reporting
> > on a hijacking, and kept repeating the word "gas" several times during
> > the story. If the cockpit was able to be physically isolated from the
> > rest of the cabin and the plane were equipped with a system to release
> > gas into the cabin to put everyone to sleep, the plane could be landed
> > safely and the terrorists would wake up in a jail cell somewhere.
> >
> >
> > Dak content: ...not important right now.
> >
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> >
> > -Jon-
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