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To: Think4Yourself who wrote (7803)	9/13/2001 9:47:37 AM
From: Annette	Respond to of 23153

I always wondered why it was so easy to access the cockpit in an airliner. Shouldn't there be something to make it harder to do this?

To: Think4Yourself who wrote (7803)	9/13/2001 3:08:38 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23153

Hi JQP, I like a lot of your suggestions. The idea of isolating the cockpits on commercial jets seems so sensible on the face of it that I can't understand why it hasn't been done already. Does anyone know the rationale for the present arrangement? As far as your point #2, I must say that I non-concur with you. We've tried that route before, and it has backfired on us. The best example is the destabilization of the popular Mossadeq regime in Iran in 1953, when our CIA was complicitous in engineering the installation of the Shah. By 1979, the fundamentalists were able to oust the Shah and they knew exactly that the Great Satan was behind the Pahlavis. Thus evolved our hostage crisis, the harboring of terrorists and a lot of the dysfunctional statecraft that has occurred over the past two decades. I'd be all in favor of your Point #2 suggestions except for one thing. They don't work. Best, Ray