> Bottom line is that we can not afford larger holes in the confidence the flying public has in air travel. Why can't we? We survived it before. And I have som

> Bottom line is that we can not afford larger holes in the confidence the flying public has in air travel. Why can't we? We survived it before. And I have some bad news for you: it's almost certain we'll have to survive it again some time in the next fifteen to twenty years, if not sooner. Our luck with the missed bombs will not hold out forever. It will be a tragedy. Life will continue (except for those people for whom it does not).