Re-enforced cockpit doors are fine, and all. But what are you going to do
when terrorists start killing innocent passengers to gain access to the
cockpit?
I, myself, would feel a hell of a lot safer on an airplane if I knew there
was someone there to make sure nothing like this EVER happened again.
I may have lost a close friend in the mayhem. She worked at the World Trade
Center, and I haven't heard from her since Friday. :-(
Brian
At 11:56 AM 09/12/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Look I myself, would be a bit squimish to have ANYONE
>toting a gun on an airplane. Trained officer or not.
>Just like they say in the home to be cautious with
>handguns cause they can be used against you. What do
>you expect? A shootout at 30,000 feet in a
>PRESSURIZED airplane!?!? Not a very good combo. Of
>course there are the rubber bullets and sand bags,
>shock guns, tear gas etc etc...but do you really want
>to be on a plane with that stuff?? i think the
>cockpit should be reinforced and basically sealed off
>liek a safe vault and that the flight pattern mainly
>be Computer Controlled with a very limited possibility
>of a manual override except in the case of an
>emergency. Have the cockpit on a time lock to where
>no matter hoe many peopl a terrorist would threaten to
>kill the door couldnt open anyway. Of course with
>computer controlled flights you'd have to consider
>some super hacker that would hack into the controls
>and still cause hell.
>Its kinda like with vehicle security for every new
>alaem or new club or other anti-theft device thats
>created, there's always some new code grabber,club
>breaker, or workaround to get into your vehicle.
>Sometimes its even an inside job, like if a kid at the
>place you got your alarm decides to program an extra
>fob with your code and give it to the highest bidder
>that wants into your car. For every crime there's a
>f#cker willing to do it.
>
>
>--- Jon Smith <jon@fast4x4.net> wrote:
> > how do you arrive at that conclusion? Should
> > hijackers make reservations to
> > that athorities could have an equal number of
> > personell on every plane?
> > Obviously that won't be a viable solution... Who's
> > to say the officers
> > would have the resources available to stop the
> > terrorists? Then factor in
> > the cowards knowing that officers are on board, add
> > in a few more of their
> > cronies...
> >
> > IMO, this is in part an example of lax security and
> > I pray that our
> > legislative and judicial systems, not to mention the
> > American society as a
> > whole, will learn from this hardest of hard lessons.
> > I for one am ready to
> > sign up and ship out to make a few thousand sq.
> > miles of glass.
> > __________________
> > Jon Smith
> > Raleigh, NC
> > '95 CC 318 4x4 auto
> > 344rwhp/424tq
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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