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To: Eric who wrote (46800)	1/26/2014 8:43:17 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86350

They are so innovative that they shut the cockpit doors AFTER the jihadists had bolted through into the cockpits. <Those of us who work in the aviation community want to continue to increase safety and reduce the loss of life.> That showed lack of thinking. The aviation industry, lacking imagination, think that by banning bomb jokes, safety will be increased. Jokes don't crash planes, bombs crash planes. Amusingly, just a few years ago they still allowed cigarette smoking, and of course lighters, and litres of highly flammable bottles of brandy, which when broken and held by the neck are better weapons than grandma's nail clippers. "I want to light small fires on the aircraft, and drink some flammable brandy. Is that okay?" Hostie, "Oh sure, and if you run low on brandy, we can provide more." A highly imaginative jihadist group could break half a dozen bottles of brandy, ignite it, and use the broken bottles as weapons, walking into the open cockpit door to take control from the pilots. But your safety-conscious aviation industry was unable to imagine such a thing happening. None of that was on their checklist, so they couldn't think of it, but I did. It was absurd to be sitting immediately behind an open cockpit door in an airliner flying across the USA in 1999. Because aircrew and police are notoriously arrogant and stupid, as you exhibit, I decided it was not in my interest to mention the danger to the aircrew lest they arrest me for making a threat [shoot the messenger type intelligence]. I should add that not all are arrogant morons. I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are aircrew. Heck, I was a pilot!! [Admittedly in training but nevertheless, doing the flying] We have the same sort of process underway in the Global Warming dogma and checklist thinking. Mqurice