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 aw1234
 
posted on September 11, 2001 10:22:02 PM
I know this is off topic but..

Correction.. they just reported that it was either ceramic knives or razor blades..

That the plane that crashed in PA.. the crew tried to overtake the hijakers.. that may have save many lives on the ground..

sigh..

Teal


[ edited by aw1234 on Sep 11, 2001 10:46 PM ]
 
 mballai
 
posted on September 12, 2001 02:10:51 AM
It's too bad that the other crews (or passengers) did not manage to complete the same. The outcome would have been very different.

 
 barbarake
 
posted on September 12, 2001 04:14:46 AM
Just out of curiosity - are the pilots allowed to carry guns?

Somehow I don't think so but I think it might be a good idea.

 
 squinkle99
 
posted on September 12, 2001 07:41:25 AM
Pilots are not required to go through the same stringent security measures as 'regular' people. There has been much ado about this issue in the past ten years or so in the aviation industry. The pilots' unions do not want to expose their members to these security measures for various reasons, but I have personally spoken with pilots who believe that everyone (pilots included) would be safer if all crewmembers were put through the same safety measures as everyone else.

Remember that Egyptian pilot who was at the controls when the aircraft went down recently who was saying, "It is in God's hands" on the blackbox recorder?

And what about the off duty FedEx pilot who brought the harpoon on board several years ago, attacked his fellow crewmembers, and intended to crash the plane into the Memphis FedEx headquarters in protest of his impending firing?

Maybe the times will be changing soon. I certainly hope so.
[ edited by squinkle99 on Sep 12, 2001 07:41 AM ]
 
 insightwatcher
 
posted on September 12, 2001 07:52:04 AM
aw1234

Where did you hear that the knives were ceramic? We have been listening to CNN all morning and nothing about such has been reported.

Oddly enough, 2 years ago, we flew to Las Vegas for a major business convention....As a 60 year old grandmother, I decided to test the security at the Atlanta Air Port, feeling that I actually wouldn't get in trouble even if the test failed. We have been knife dealers for many years, and were heading to a convention where knife wholesalers were present, so I just dropped a knife in my purse, feeling if it were found, that I could easily by pass problems, considering my age, my business, and where we were going.

Guess what, it was in my purse, run through the x-ray system at Atlanta International, and wasn't found. We even had to change planes in Phoenix, and still nothing. The knife in my purse made it all the way to Las Vegas. This told me that, what appeared to be security at air ports, was a fraud, that we were obviously at risk.That was 2 years ago!

I wanted to report the lax security, but actually didn’t know who to report it to, or who would actually care. If anyone in authority had been testing the major air ports, Atlanta being the busiest in the US, then they already knew that security at the air ports wasn’t working and obviously didn’t need me to tell them, and apparently didn't care.

Frightening!!

 
 insightwatcher
 
posted on September 12, 2001 08:22:40 AM
I guess my experience above wasn't so unusual.

Being reported by INT. News, UK:

[b]”It is even possible the hijackers marched on board with their weapons without even bothering to smuggle them.

Passengers on US domestic flights would not have had a pocket knife taken off them if it was small enough, said Mr Yardley!”[/b]

Unreal!!


 
 
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