[Rokke]

Yes, I would definetely say we are stuck. The simple fact is, shooting down airplanes is not the solution we should rely on. A terrorist who hijacks an airplane with the intent of crashing it into something, doesn't really lose when we shoot him down before he gets there. We've still lost a hundred or so Americans, and worse yet, we had to pull the trigger. How about this solution...what if the FAA mandated that every airliner be equipped with a secure, remote control bomb that could be detonated if that airliner was hijacked. Do you think the public would buy off on that? I doubt it. Yet, we are willing to blow millions of dollars flying fighter aircraft around the clock in the hopes that they can reach, receive clearance and shootdown a hijacked airliner before it takes out another valuable target. It just isn't realistic, and it isn't a good solution. The simple fact is, it is almost impossible for the government to prevent another 9-11 attack. That job rests on the shoulders of every single person who flies in an airplane. We've already proven it can work. We just need people to take the responsiblity.

[goldstategop]

Like Todd Beamer & Co? YESSS!!! The drawback is though where you have a solo kamikazi you just can't take back control of the plane unless: well an idea would be to install circuitry that would enable an ATC tower to take control of a plane and land it safely if it deviated from preapproved flight plans stored in the onboard computer's memory. And we could program planes to not take off unless there was a flight plane filed in advance of take off. What do you think?