Hijacking is so yesterdecade.
The sealed cockpit door required today during flight makes it virtually impossible for a hijacker to capture control of a plane.
The more likely terrorist situation aboard a plane today is to bomb it, taking the entire craft down. Which is why the teeny tiny toothpaste tubes that are all that are permitted for carryons today, in hopes that would be an insufficient quantity of explosive to down the flight if it proves to be explosive.
But do they have any idea what is in much of the freight and luggage that they haul for common carriers and other passengers in the cargo bays? Maybe they do now but they didn’t.
This WOT is not only wearing thin, but breaking the bank. Most of the methods are about convincing the masses that they are doing something, but basically they are ineffective, and in the process they treat and consider each one of us as a terrorist.
“The more likely terrorist situation aboard a plane today is to bomb it, taking the entire craft down.”
Oh, I do understand this. In the past, we depended on some sense of self-preservation to work in our favor with hijackers. Today’s suicide jihadist has no such regard for his own life.
We have other ways of finding those bent on jihad, including using intel and bomb sniffing canines. Political correctness be damned.
We’ve also decided that the public at large is guilty until they prove their worthiness to board an airplane after a humiliating and pointless search in direct violation of our constitutional rights.
It’s become painfully obvious that a life without risk is also a life without freedom.
Some think this is OK. I don’t.