Deliberate midair - possible?
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Well, that certainly explains the spate of near misses in the North East over the last few years.
Guess they should have gone to Specsavers.
What's all this with the obsession with London? You really think terrorists are so dumb that they don't know there is a world full of targets out there? You honestly believe that they're also incapable of being creative and original in the ways in which they go about their activities?
Why bother with anything so complex as trying a mid-air collision. Ridiculously easy to get a job at a regional airport and put a device into the hold whilst loading bags. Think it can't be done? Only a matter of time. It's not the terrorists who are dumb.
Guess they should have gone to Specsavers.What's all this with the obsession with London? You really think terrorists are so dumb that they don't know there is a world full of targets out there? You honestly believe that they're also incapable of being creative and original in the ways in which they go about their activities?
Why bother with anything so complex as trying a mid-air collision. Ridiculously easy to get a job at a regional airport and put a device into the hold whilst loading bags. Think it can't be done? Only a matter of time. It's not the terrorists who are dumb.
Per Ardua ad Astraeus
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Before anyone else offers 'suggestions' for attacking air transport, I would say a few things:-
1) The opening scenario would be so difficult to achieve we can effectively dismiss it.
2) Regarding 'bombs in the hold' - that scenario is also ignoring not just the NORMAL procedures but the heightened security procedures now in place.
3) Several people have commented on (and complained about) the wisdom of giving 'nutters' or others ideas, however unlikely, via threads like these. It is a pointless thread in a way in as much we all face a real threat in the UK today, but the thread starter has had nothing to offer as a suggestion, only floated an 'idea'. I do not consider that serves any useful function. I have decided it will be closed now.
As a few have said, let us not raise the anxiety levels through 'odd' scenarios like these, which as a few have said, play right into the hands of those who wish to create 'anxieties' in our society. There are enough real ones all around us to keep us, and those charged with our safety, on our toes.
........and as for the gent's toilet threat, now that IS a worry
1) The opening scenario would be so difficult to achieve we can effectively dismiss it.
2) Regarding 'bombs in the hold' - that scenario is also ignoring not just the NORMAL procedures but the heightened security procedures now in place.
3) Several people have commented on (and complained about) the wisdom of giving 'nutters' or others ideas, however unlikely, via threads like these. It is a pointless thread in a way in as much we all face a real threat in the UK today, but the thread starter has had nothing to offer as a suggestion, only floated an 'idea'. I do not consider that serves any useful function. I have decided it will be closed now.
As a few have said, let us not raise the anxiety levels through 'odd' scenarios like these, which as a few have said, play right into the hands of those who wish to create 'anxieties' in our society. There are enough real ones all around us to keep us, and those charged with our safety, on our toes.
........and as for the gent's toilet threat, now that IS a worry
