The lessons of 9/11

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The lessons of 9/11

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THE REINFORCEMENT of cockpit doors on most commercial airliners was perhaps the most important change to air travel in the wake of the September 11th attacks. Hijackers can't easily or quickly knock down the reinforced doors, which only open from the inside. But nearly as crucial was a change in attitude. Before 9/11, most hijackings had ended on the ground, with the vast majority of the passengers surviving. For passengers, the smart move was to cooperate and hope that they got out okay. The 9/11 hijackings changed all that. After 9/11, the vast majority of airline passengers are now inclined to resist any attempts to hijack a plane (or anything that resembles a hijacking attempt.)

This relatively new tendency was in full display this week as travellers on three separate planes subdued men who were causing disturbances. On a Continental flight last Sunday, passengers brought down a man who tried to open the plane's front door while it was still in the air. ""Americans are not going down like that anymore," Sonia Cunningham, one of the other passengers, told a local television station. "The men were all up and out in a minute getting him subdued." Three days later, another man was charged in an almost identical incident aboard a Delta flight. He, too, was subdued by a fellow passenger.

Elsewhere, a third man was arrested after banging on the (reinforced, of course) cockpit door of an American Airlines flight bound for California. He was (surprise!) also subdued by passengers:

A flight attendant thought [Rageh] Almoraissi was headed for a first-class bathroom, but instead he "grabbed" the cockpit door and began banging on it, said San Francisco police Sgt. Michael Rodriguez.A flight attendant ordered him to stop, but Almoraissi ignored him and continued trying to force open the door, which only opens from the inside, Rodriguez said. "The flight attendant put hands on him to spin him around, and the passenger started resisting. It was described as violent resistance. The flight attendant started asking for help, and it basically took four males to subdue him and get the flexible handcuffs on him," Rodriguez said.Two of the passengers who helped had backgrounds in law enforcement, police said. One was a retired police officer from San Mateo, Calif., and the other was a retired U.S. Secret Service agent. The fourth man was a pilot catching a flight back to San Francisco.
It seems hard to believe that any of these men were terrorists. If they were, they weren't very good at it. But the three incidents do underline how much harder causing trouble on a plane has become in the post-9/11 era. No wonder Osama bin Laden had already decided that targeting America's rail system was a better bet.
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"Americans are not going down like that anymore"
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Таа му е навистина добра! :twisted:
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