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Can't see what your comments have got to do with what the Mirror have done. It was a normal pleasure flight over London. The company would probably have taken them even if they'd known they were journalists - becuase the company did nothing wrong. Newspapers use helicopters all the time for photos and even for transporting journos if it's a big story.
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You can't take away all risk, and life would be unbearable if we even tried.
The sort of people who carry out terrorist acts of the sort the Mirror is being stupid about aren't amateurs doing something on a sudden whim. They know what htey're doing and plan. All many of the security measures do is inconvenience the rest of us - they don't make a scrap of difference to the determined terrorist.
Much of it is window dressing to try stop our idiot Press stirring up hte average reader who doesn't know the first thing about the issues involved.
eg We now can't allow pax in the cockpit, but US carriers couldn't on 9/11 - didn't stop the terrorists.
Same goes for the locked doors argument.
BTW, if you flew a Jetranger into a building it would bounce off in little bits - might break a window or two i suppose. The London car-bombers of years ago didn't use light helicopters, they stacked cars with explosives. Terrorists are evil, but they're not stupid. If you want to blow up Parliament, you're not going to do it with the sort of weight of explosives a GA helicopter can carry.
I wish I bought the Mirror, then I could stop buying it in disgust!
