CNN.com - Airline employees intentionally breach security

[Kurt Granroth]

On Monday 17 September 2001 02:10 pm, Todd Hought wrote:
> reminds me of a good quote I saw once.
>
> "God created all men. Sam Colt made 'em equal."
>
> Give the pilots guns in the cockpits to defend themselves, and you bet
> this won't happen again.

This is getting WAY offtopic for this list.. but still.  Giving the pilots 
guns wouldn't be enough.  As is, it would still be possible to wrestle the 
gun away or somehow coerce the pilot to drop it.

No, there would also need to be a few more laws (and training) to make it 
effective:

1) The gun would need to be "keyed" somehow to only work if used by the pilot 
or co-pilot
2) Once the flight starts, the door needs to be locked and FORBIDDEN to open
3) The pilots would need to be trained to NEVER give up the cockpit.. even if 
that means that the terrorists will start killing off the crew and passengers

For the first one, I'd insist on only the pilot and co-pilot and not the 
flight attendents.  That's because I'm sure some terrorist groups right now 
are trying for a long range plan of planting operatives right in the flight 
attendents crews just waiting for the right moment.
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