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

To: miraje who wrote (1473)	9/13/2001 4:06:22 PM
From: joseph krinsky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

That's because we are so afraid someone is going to bring some drugs into the country. The sad part about all of that is the drug war has made everything worse regarding drugs. They should jsut let everyone do what they want to, and it will all work itself out, like it has in the other countries. The drug abusers will eventually eliminate themselves, and the problem will be almost non existant. I thought that instead of using machines to check onboarding passengers, they should use dogs. They're cheaper and as far as I know, nothing beats a dogs nose for anything. It's even almost a lot of fun when they stick it where they always stick it and embarass everyone when you have company.

To: miraje who wrote (1473)	9/13/2001 4:21:35 PM
From: Rob S.	Respond to of 27666

Thanks for sharing your conversation. Yes, Boeing and its suppliers develop many derivative configurations that are offered as options to the airlines. Some of these are developed by vendors or by Boeing on speculation that specific customers will follow through with paying orders. But many times they are designed initially with one or just a few specific customers who agree to an initial order before the actual finite design work (beyond nice concept drawings and preliminaries). There is not a single way this is done but projects tend to follow general routes through the maize of these large organizations and approvals process. Times like these (crisis times) tend to break through many barriers and committees. It can be as simple as getting all the necessary decision makers in one room, proverbially locking the doors, and hashing out the plan and who is responsible for each and every specific task or group of tasks. This is coordinated through strict timelines and deadlines for check-off. It is complex but these groups have been doing this sort of thing for eternity. That is the way it works if you get commitment from the most senior people - you become part of their team or they concede authority to you to get the job done. I appreciate all the great posts but I am minimizing this page to move on to some phone time (I just got back from a quick lunch). My first calls will be to Boeing and a couple of their payloads and avionics systems suppliers and then some calls to some Congressional offices. I'll try to get back (or stay away until!) late this afternoon.

To: miraje who wrote (1473)	9/13/2001 4:38:30 PM
From: Arthur Radley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

James, You mention that Boeing offers secure cockpit access but that airlines don't tak advantage of this offering. Let me share with you another factoid about airline safety and the fact airlines refuse to take advantage of it. If you enter an airplane from the front entrance and look down the aisle you notice right away....ALL passenger seats face the front. Any safety experts will tell you that IF you faced the passenger seats to the rear that in MANY cases crash landing would end with many passengers NOT being killed. Think about this....what happens on impact and where does the initial impact occur. Interesting fact is that airlines don't choose to offer this seating configurations because of the belief that passengers would be adverse to the implications that there is a safety issue involved in air travel. Go figure! To my knowledge, Southwest airlines is the only airline that has a FEW seats facing the rear. I always select one of those seats and let me tell you that upon landing, if you aren't safely buckled in, you are in for a surprise.