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To: oconnellc who wrote (105127)	9/19/2001 11:54:46 PM
From: pcstel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

OT I'm really curious to hear what you think the consequences of implementing your solution might be? As you must be aware.. I get a bit "animated" at times. First of all. You are looking at an event "hijacking" that has occurred domestically at most once every two years "as an average" over the last 20 years. So if you say we had an average of 3000 flights a day over that period. So that would be 12 hijackings in 21.9 MILLION flights! Lets say the average flight had 100 people on board.. So that's 1,200 people over a 20 year period that have personally witnessed a hijacking in the US vs. over 20 years 3000 flights a day 100 passengers per plane equals 2.2 Billion People that arrived at their destination without a hijacking. The concept is to prove to the hijackers that an attempt to commandeer a plane is futile.. They will just gas the whole cabin, and then wake up in jail.. Hijacking's go way down when they know it won't work?? Look at what happened to hijackings to Cuba when Castro simply arrested them when they walked off the plane and stuck them in Cuban Prisons.. They stopped!!! Why.. Because they knew they could not win. So the overall number of people that would ever be subjected to "The Gas" would be low... Real low.. Seems like a good trade off if the hijackers know they can't win?? Because right now.. They know that they can win!! PCSTEL