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High speed trains go through city centers and are vulnerable to bombs
by caprese 7y ago
High speed trains go through city centers and are vulnerable to bombs
- sbuttgereit 7y agoYes, but it's hard to use a train the way the 9/11 attacks used planes. They were able to take the planes and magnify the damage, casualties, and spectacle and they had a high degree of freedom in picking targets. Much harder to pull that off with a train; you'd make the news, but not stun the world.
- ja30278 7y agoI have never understood why, post 9/11, planes were not modified to remove the cabin to cockpit door, and make the cockpit door a separate entrance. This would more or less completely remove the possibility of a second 9/11 attack, and would render airplanes no more attractive a target than any other group of several hundred people.
- codedokode 7y agoThat might be inconvenient, because aircraft staff sometimes needs to talk to pilots or make them sign some documents.
- EE84M3i 7y agoAlso, the pilots would need their own bathroom.
- javagram 7y agoThe cockpit door was reinforced and can’t be easily broken down now. That has achieved effectively the same thing.
- cmurf 7y agoPilots need access to a toilette, but also there are rare cases where pilots need to look out of side windows. There's also flights with crew changes. And the very rare case of crew incapacitation. A case where a pilot needed to gain access to the cockpit but couldn't, Germanwings Flight 9525.
- mixmastamyk 7y agoLikely cheaper to make a tougher door than build a new entrance and moving arm for people thing.
- callalex 7y agoHow is that any different than roads and sidewalks?