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9/11 style terrorism was solved by reinforcing the cockpit doors. Everything else has been police state fear mongering.
9/11 style terrorism was solved by reinforcing the cockpit doors. Everything else has been police state fear mongering.
It was solved as soon as ordinary passengers realized that hijackers didn't want hostages anymore. The cockpit door thing is security theatre too.
The author's terrorism concerns are way overblown and the reasoning supporting them specious, but there is a more basic issue with hypersonic point-to-point transportation systems outside of the additional arguments related to current air travel, at least for vehicles designed to go suborbital/exoatmospheric: Once we are talking about traveling to a destination and not simply going "straight" up and down, the costs,…
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It was solved as soon as ordinary passengers realized that hijackers didn't want hostages anymore. The cockpit door thing is security theatre too.
There was 1 coordinated attack where the hijackers did not want hostages. If I am a passenger on a hijacked plane, my guess would be that they are in it for the ransom.
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There was 1 coordinated attack where the hijackers did not want hostages. If I am a passenger on a hijacked plane, my guess would be that they are in it for the ransom.
Then you are the problem. From now on airline passengers must simply assume that all terrorists are suicide bombers and act accordingly, fighting back with all available means; thus will we ensure that airline hijackings remain unviable.
If you respond as if the hijackers are suicide bombers, when they really only want a ransom, then you risk some or all of the hostages getting injured or dyeing, as well as the potential for the plane, which would otherwise have landed safely, to crash into a populated area as the hijackers are distracted from piloting the plane, or the passenger may decide to be heroes and take over (crashing either deliberately or by accident).