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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JSB who wrote (452)	9/12/2001 11:50:50 AM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

>The solution is to require bulletproof bulkheads between the cabin and cockpit. I think this is a great measure, I just emailed it to my Congress woman.

To: JSB who wrote (452)	9/12/2001 11:51:09 AM
From: XenaLives	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

During WWII England had a civil defense system with air wardens that helped keep people alive. There is no reason that we could not develop a similar system, with a peer referral network for those individuals with the martial skills to help defend against hijackers. Firemen generally have bodily strength and are trained to respond properly in crisis. I am sure many of them would be able to physically overpower a knife wielding hijacker.

To: JSB who wrote (452)	9/12/2001 12:00:34 PM
From: Condor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27666

Hi JSB. Some time back during another hi-jacking I remember reading comments on protecting flights. There was the discussion that merely bullet proofing didn't address the ability of hi-jackers to commence assassination of passengers, panicking and firing off rounds of ammo or using detonation items resulting in rapid and catastrophic decompression. They also still had the opportunity to commit suicide and go to their great reward along with the innocent hostages. It was volunteered that perhaps an effective program may be to have video monitoring of all areas outside the cockpit and also give the cockpit the ability to inject a submissive "gas" instantly into the passenger area. Discussion ensued whereby it was noted that innocents would be subjected to the danger of "going under" along with the perpetrators but it was viewed as preferable to an all encompassing catastrophic end to the incident. Perhaps some approach of this nature would be useful. Regards C