Klarinet Archive - Posting 000883.txt from 2002/11

From: Mark Gresham <mgresham@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Post 911 Travel with Instruments
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:01:51 -0500

Nick Simicich wrote:
>
> At 09:55 AM 2002-11-19 -0600, R. Williams wrote:
>
> But the reality is that 9/11 has forever ended the chance of someone taking
> control of an airplane with a "minor weapon" such as a box cutter, or a
> knife, simply because there are too many passengers and too many impromptu
> weapons. Trays, carry-on bags, laptops, books, fists.

Or plastic bottles filled with breast milk. Maybe even a Tweety Bird
keychain (for which a local school expelled a student, saying it could
be used as a weapon under their "no tolerance" guidelines). Maybe you
could just hit someone with a fish taken out of a cooler.

> Improved cockpit doors and the policy change of "keep the door closed" have
> ended the risk of airplanes being hijacked and used as weapons.

More than that, it's that cerw and passengers now know that a hijack can
mean a lot more than an inconvenient detour and a box of Cuban cigars.
So the pre-9/11 passivist practices of handling a hijacking don't apply
anymore.

> Yes, they should be suspicious of cork grease, because they do not know it is an
> explosive.

It isn't? ;-)

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