This thread has been done a few times recently, always with same outcome. 1 group advocating the crew to be armed, and the other group havily against that senario. the one common view point is that airport security needs to be further improved.
In this thread we again see the arming crew and improved cockpit door arguments, I will not say which is the better solution, but here is my comments on them both.
1. Armed crew. Maybe a solution, has anybody advocating this option ever dicharged a firearm againt another LIVING human being, with the intend to kill. Ask any police officer or soldier, and they will tell you that it is not easy if you havn´t been mentally trained for it ei. dummys and human shaped targets.
2. Locked/Impenatrable cockpit door. This wouldn´t impose any major technical problems, the only problem would be if the hijackers started to execute Pax or cabin crew.
Let´s face it, there is no easy solution. If we made airport security 100% safe, somebody would quickly come up with the idea of standing near the flight path and shoot a hand held AA missile up your a¤&, not unlike the IRA mortar attack on Heathrow a few years back.
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