Here’s the story:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040722/ap_on_re_us/sept_11_flight93_2
The conclusion:
The commission concluded that the hijackers remained at the controls of the plane, “but must have judged that the passengers were only seconds from overcoming them.”
So let me get this straight. Had the cockpit been ‘breachable’, the passengers might have been able to save their own lives. Dispite their highly motivated effort, the passengers failed to enter the cockpit with the flimsy old doors. Notice the conspicuous lack of mention on how the *hijackers* got in? So now what happens under the same scenario with the new fortified doors? The hijackers will *know* that the passengers aren’t just seconds from overcoming them and continue on to hit their target.
We can only hope that the Representatives who actually passed that law are in the building when the plane hits it. One more example of a well-intentioned government law gone bad.
Oh, and in case you’re thinking “yeah, but they’ll never get *in* now”, you’re fooling yourself. Though the likelyhood has probably been decreased due to the education that took place on 9/11 (*not* due to any action of government at all), nothing is impossible. Furthermore, has anyone considered what happens when an airline pilot decides to hijack his own airplane? I’m sure some terrorists somewhere have been quietly and busily trying to *legitimately* obtain airline jobs (maybe even here in the U.S.).
Now there’s nothing the passnegers can do to stop them from hitting their target. They’re disarmed, and they’re locked out. That sounds so good until you consider the potential consequences, doesn’t it?
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