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Re: "Thinking Level" of FAA



At 10:19 -0600 9/17/01, Jim Green wrote:

>I remember a cartoon back in the 1970s where each passenger is being
issued a pistol as they pass the security checkpoint.

This scenario is frightening to the anti-gun people, but it would solve the
problem

-- and I like it!!!

And of course guns would be denied to all hijackers.

On the other hand, the vision of a cabin shootout, with the hijackers
trying to shoot their way through a phalanx of armed passengers as
they try to get to the cockpit is rather appealing. It would probably
only add another hundred dollars per ticket to cover the costs of
repair of bullet holes in the skin and higher volume cabin air
compressors (to allow for the air lost through the holes). Of course
the air escaping through the bullet holes would certainly ease the
problem of stale air being recirculated through the cabin. So there
seems to be benefits all around to this scheme. Pilots would have to
be more careful, though, because the high velocity jets of air
escaping through the bullet holes might change the trim of the
aircraft. Nothing comes without its little costs.

Hugh
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Hugh Haskell
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