[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by speeder
Locking cockpit doors on jetliners would have prevented 9/11, even w/ Bush ignoring daily Presidential briefs warning of an iminent attack and an FBI agent trying to get her superior's attention about some suspicious Middle-easterners in flight schools in the U.S.

How many 100s of billions of dollars and dead and maimed soldiers and civilians would that have cost?

I've never been the conspiratorial type, at all, but it is hard not to wonder if certain people and industries w/ a vested interest in war are not using a terrorist attack as an excuse for some absolutely horrible policy.

Denis, You are partially correct. There is one very quick and easy thing that would have prevented much of what happened on 9/11. Its called awareness. Americans are very good at dealing with new and unusual problems... thats why we are the leader of the world in so many areas.

Once the pax on the 4rd airplane knew that this was not a "normal hijacking" and that they were going to die one way or the other, they risked everything and attempted to take the airplane back. Had the second (WTC #2) and third (DC) passengers known this the carnage might have been less but they did not.

Now we know and if some idiot tried it again and there is no Sky Marshall on the plane, then eventually enough of the passengers will come forward and stomp him and his friends to death on the galley floor. It really only takes a few kicks to get the cockpit door open if you know where to hit it, but this as well hopefully gives one of the pilots time to "lock and load" the pistol in their map case and kill the bastards.

They will come up with another method, and we will figure out a way to defeat it. I just hope that the first hit is something that we can live with.

JoeA