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Personally I do not think that increasing the security at the airports is going to make a bit of difference. You can still get on board with a hip flask of ethoxyethane, a bag of gauze bandages and a belt that contains five feet of piano wire.
Increasing the "security" at the airports is a knee-jerk reaction that serves no other purpose than to create a "oh good, they're doing something" feeling in the general public that is totally misplaced.
You put two armed guards on board each airplane, and you train _ALL_ flight personnel in kung fu, you create an airlock between the cockpit and the rest of the airplane, or you make the cockpit autonomous. That's how you prevent suicide-hijacks.
If you want to be _sure_ that no passengers are going to pull any stunts, you sedate them when they board the plane. Preferably with Sodium Pentothal...
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Personally I do not think that increasing the security at the airports is going to make a bit of difference. You can still get on board with a hip flask of ethoxyethane, a bag of gauze bandages and a belt that contains five feet of piano wire.
Increasing the "security" at the airports is a knee-jerk reaction that serves no other purpose than to create a "oh good, they're doing something" feeling in the general public that is totally misplaced.
You put two armed guards on board each airplane, and you train _ALL_ flight personnel in kung fu, you create an airlock between the cockpit and the rest of the airplane, or you make the cockpit autonomous. That's how you prevent suicide-hijacks.
If you want to be _sure_ that no passengers are going to pull any stunts, you sedate them when they board the plane. Preferably with Sodium Pentothal...
Cheers,
\Alph