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I reckon the TSA-Checks are more of "Lets prevent a Terrorist from using a 500 ton plane with 250.000 litres of high explosive fuel moving at 700km/h against so
by exar0815 10y ago
I reckon the TSA-Checks are more of "Lets prevent a Terrorist from using a 500 ton plane with 250.000 litres of high explosive fuel moving at 700km/h against something else" than of "Lets prevent someone from killing the people onboard the plane".
Imagine someone ploughing shortly after the start into the Super Bowl. Thats what REAL security nightmares are made of.
Even though, even that cant be fully prevented. Best example would be someone like Andreas Lubitz.
- chris_va 10y agoExcept whatever TSA would catch has mostly been solved with armored cockpit doors. Security money doesn't seem rationally invested.
- douche 10y agoWe might as well just consider the TSA a really terrible jobs program.
- curried_haskell 10y agoAn atrociously bad jobs program. Because while it gives a ton of people jobs, it bends over society and completely and thoroughly fucks the rest of us.
- themartorana 10y agoNot to mention they look like some downright miserable jobs.
- stcredzero 10y agoreally terrible jobs program That could be the basis of the worst reality TV show ever! Or one of President Trump's economic programs. Or both.
- Nav_Panel 10y ago> more of "Lets prevent a Terrorist from using a 500 ton plane with 250.000 litres of high explosive fuel moving at 700km/h against something else" The most important safety measure against this became mandatory procedure after 9/11: locking the cockpit doors. If the terrorists can't control the plane, they can't use it as a projectile weapon. No amount of killing passengers will give them this kind of access.
- Navarr 10y agoDo we trust the pilots not to unlock the door in that situation? "Open the door or the passengers die!"?
- dawnerd 10y agoI guess we can take it a step further, whats to stop a pilot from turning bad?
- sbov 10y agoYes we do, because everyone will die anyways. The reason why 9/11 was possible was because it had never happened. They could have added zero security measures, not even locking the cockpit door, and 9/11 still would probably not happen again. The reason is because before 9/11 the common wisdom was to let the hijackers do what they want. After 9/11 the common wisdom is the plane is going to be used to fly into a building. But, locking the door is still a good common sense extra security measure.