Originally Posted by inawordavortex
.....what next sky marshals in the cockpit?
That's right. Judging from the way risk assessment gets done these days, I'm surprised the fools haven't decided there exists a possibility of one pilot turning. Knocking off his mate and then doing a nasty. To counter such remote possibility, air marshals would be installed in cockpits. Would piss everyone off, lead to great tension, stress, probably regular incidents due lack of focus, etc. But the clowns will have reduced the probability of terrorist-related incidents from 1 per 100,000,000 hours to maybe 1 per 100,000,001 hours...
This sort of inane risk management approach is being applied to things like crews' contact lenses and lunches. The reduction in risk is probably similarly insignificant. Is it really worth the stress, tension, anger, effort? Mr Bernoulli - you are right about one thing - from all this there would be a statistical INCREASE in people making errors as a result of the daily stress and tension. So, we end up having a 0.00001 % reduction in the chance of dying by terrorism offset by a 0.00002 % increase in the chance of dying due to cockpit error? Great.
The resources/efforts would be far better focused on areas where you could make a significant impact on the chance of a terrorism event. Areas such as PROFILING.