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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (52024)	9/13/2001 12:31:05 PM
From: Robert O	Read Replies (2) of 70976

Agree with the greed and ignorance of airlines and govt. Many months ago I watched a Dateline report that focused on one specific item: the fact that U.S. commercial flights often left their cockpit doors either open or frequently opened/closed to bring in food, etc. to pilots. This was compared to many other parts of the world in which the cockpit is secured and the door never opened during flight. Currently, the door could be easily kicked in as the lock and door itself are flimsy. This is almost irrelevant given that it is common knowledge that the flight attendants have a key to the cockpit door and all passengers know it. All these talking heads talk about how sophisticated this operation was... what the fuc* are they talking about? Here's entire complexity (basically): Buy Exacto knives, get on plane with them and buy tickets for same morning's flights. Have empty box and call it a bomb. Make flight attendant give you key to cockpit which he/she will do willingly per established procedures. Lunatics now have complete control of plane to do as they wish. Unbelievably there are no set plans in place for planes that go off course ...even if one flies into a major part of NY skyline. No plan to even communicate from Tower to Airforce even after phone calls from various planes established highjackings were happening! It's incredible and so horribly naive. Most Americans just expect that there are careful, thoughtful, hopefully extra paranoid types that consider these possibilities and have planned ahead. The gov't in its usual incompetence was asleep at the switch. Talking heads kept saying this was 'unimaginable' What??? We all know there are lunatic suicidal groups and that the U.S. is easy to get in and out of. Why was it so hard for anyone in authority to consider the possibility of what happened. In hindsight it's amazing it's been 10 yrs. since a highjacking in the U.S. Simple solution is to have an impenetrable shield between the cockpit and rest of plane. In advance ALL the public should know that in no event would the door open from beg. to end of flight. Control will never be handed over even if passengers are threatened. We can work on other aspects of safety to ensure far better passenger safety as well, but this simple change will protect planes from becoming missiles forever more. Why is this so complicated? Bottom line: the U.S. had very little ex-ante protection against hijacking. The biggest deterrent was the subsequent repercussion it would bring as a response (ex-post). Right or wrong, the group(s) associated with this have sowed the seeds of terrorism and they will reap the whirlwind of hell on earth I suspect. The sleeping tiger analogy is apt, he sleeps in the open unprotected but should you dare try or even succeed in kicking it in the face, he will shake to and fro, stretch to his fullness and pounce with a fury heretofore unseen. This entire process is totally surreal. The ease of execution the most horrific reality. RO

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