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To: long-gone who wrote (89122)	8/27/2002 10:05:09 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116833

If you are going to get taken over by any airline, let it be Quantas, which has the best safety record of any in the world. Aussie safety program should be copied pronto by major US carriers. Even the Brits are better. They emphasize overchecking of 100's of input criteria in an ongoing flight monitoring program to identify bad signs. Yankee techniques involve carefully checking 100's of pieces of crashed planes and head scratching. I would rather be ahead of the curve. More sensors would have detected all those bad hydraulic valves on the 767's which cause rudder failure and killed hundreds. If I were going to sue anyone, as a 9-11 victim, I would sue the airlines for negligence in airport monitoring of passengers instead of the Arabs. It is highly evident that their low pay scale laissez faire attitude towards checking personnel and in air security personnel allowed the hikackers easy access. One trained enforcment person on the flight would have prevented the whole debacle. Airlines are negligent. They would not even install more sophisticated sensor systems including reliable collision detection, for years, contributing to 1000's of deaths since 1960 that these systems would have been available. EC<:-}