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This doesn't seem as bad as when the TSA published pictures of their master keys - it sounds like the codes have already been changed & the pilots still have to
by westworld_ 10y ago
This doesn't seem as bad as when the TSA published pictures of their master keys - it sounds like the codes have already been changed & the pilots still have to do visual confirmation even if a correct code was used.
The endless struggle between convenience and security continues. Considering the statistics I actually think the airline industry and its associated governing bodies have accomplished an incredible feat of balancing these two sides of the seesaw. It can be a hassle flying, but there are 895 million passenger trips per year in the US (stat from 2015) and the last fatal US passenger airliner accident was in 2009!
I'd worry much more about new regulations pushing large quantities of Li-Ion batteries into airplane holds than about these cabin access codes being published.
- froindt 10y ago>and the last fatal US passenger airliner accident was in 2009! Asiana flight 214 (San Francisco crash with the fake names announced by a major news outlet) was in 2013. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214
- alistairSH 10y ago<pedant>Asiana isn't an American airline</pedant> Either way, the main point still holds - the American airline industry, along with its foreign counterparts in Europe and Asian, do an amazing job keeping the flying public safe.
- mikeash 10y agoIt really is amazing that we can go years between fatalities. To put it in perspective, air travel in the US involves about 10% of the passenger-miles of road travel. If air travel had a similar fatality rate as road travel, then we'd see 3,000-4,000 fatalities per year from airliner crashes, in the US alone.
- froindt 10y agoSorry, I misread it as last airline crash in the US.