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If your goal is just to make a mass murder, there are places more crowded than an airport and with less police walking around. Getting control of a plane can

• pessimizer 14y ago
  True, and also likely back when the airlines were lobbying not to have to strengthen cockpit doors. These days, the odds of getting into the cockpit armed with boxcutters are somewhere between shit and NULL.
  • ot 14y ago
    Agree, this reminded me of the following quote by Schneier: > “The only useful airport security measures since 9/11,” he says, “were locking and reinforcing the cockpit doors, so terrorists can’t break in, positive baggage matching”—ensuring that people can’t put luggage on planes, and then not board them —“and teaching the passengers to fight back. The rest is security theater.” http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/12/tsa-insanity-201112 http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/12/tsa-insan...
  • 46Bit 14y ago
    Besides which the pilots might well crash the plane somewhere harmless in the meantime rather than becoming a flying bomb.
• talmand 14y ago
  True, but the likelihood of somebody pulling that off again is, I'd imagine, rather small. That kind of tactic will most likely only work once. For it to happen again it would probably have to be done by people who don't blend in with the crowd going through security. For instance, an employee. Even then, chances are it would have to be a pilot or someone who can gain access to the cockpit during flight.