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To: Les H who wrote (121718)	9/13/2001 5:39:25 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

<U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies received warning signals at least three months ago that Middle Eastern terrorists were planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture, according to a story in Germany's daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). > WOW! This gets stranger all the time... and from FAZ... not BILD! If true it looks terrible... got another few billion for a Trident? I hear they're selling 'em for lawn ornaments to folks with Ranches. You know the uglier this recession gets the more you wonder if we didn't just outlast the Russians with our sicko spending by a few years. DAK

To: Les H who wrote (121718)	9/13/2001 5:52:33 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 436258

big jump in jobless claims news.excite.com

To: Les H who wrote (121718)	9/13/2001 5:54:58 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

I don't agree that hijackings are impossible to prevent (except perhaps those which are done by the pilot himself). If air travel drops significantly, people will be surprised at the speed with which ingenuity follows. Commercial interests won't do something on their own until either it's forced on them by regulation or the public demands it (ala air bags in cars). How about a flying flight-deck-as-safe with external keypad to open it up, one which a pilot could reach using the tiny cockpit windows after landing but literally impossible to open while flying. If you can't take over control of the craft from the passenger compartment, then it's value as a flying bomb is greatly diminished. Now you just have to get the pilot in and secured prior to passengers. You have the problem of renegade pilots (or could) but that is a vastly simpler problem to contain than the millions of pedestrians boarding each week.