Pilots Need to be Screened too
12-09-2010 | 07:58 PM
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To attempt to screen, i.e. disgruntled pilots?
Lots of stuff in this country of bureaucracy is window dressing. i.e. What cops do every day is window dressing (I was a cop). Does that mean we should throw the baby out with the bathwater?
What is the right to a speedy and public trial have to do with this discussion?
Lots of stuff in this country of bureaucracy is window dressing. i.e. What cops do every day is window dressing (I was a cop). Does that mean we should throw the baby out with the bathwater?
What is the right to a speedy and public trial have to do with this discussion?
12-09-2010 | 08:11 PM
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You have yet to appropriately illustrate how screening a disgruntled pilot with malicious intent beyond positive employment verification might actually prevent something from happening... no matter what seat that pilot occupies on the airplane.
All the tools are already on the airplane for a knowledgable pilot to do something tragic.
Screening simply looks for objects...
All the tools are already on the airplane for a knowledgable pilot to do something tragic.
Screening simply looks for objects...
12-09-2010 | 08:24 PM
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Zapata, do you really think there is nothing beyond the metal detectors that can be used as weapon when you have access to the cockpit in flight as a pilot?
If you don't, then you need a couple of lessons in basic self defense.
If you do, then you are disagreeing with yourself.
I really don't know how to put it more simply.
If you don't, then you need a couple of lessons in basic self defense.
If you do, then you are disagreeing with yourself.
I really don't know how to put it more simply.
12-09-2010 | 08:34 PM
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You have yet to appropriately illustrate how screening a disgruntled pilot with malicious intent beyond positive employment verification might actually prevent something from happening... no matter what seat that pilot occupies on the airplane.
All the tools are already on the airplane for a knowledgable pilot to do something tragic.
Screening simply looks for objects...
All the tools are already on the airplane for a knowledgable pilot to do something tragic.
Screening simply looks for objects...
12-09-2010 | 08:38 PM
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Zapata, do you really think there is nothing beyond the metal detectors that can be used as weapon when you have access to the cockpit in flight as a pilot?
If you don't, then you need a couple of lessons in basic self defense.
If you do, then you are disagreeing with yourself.
I really don't know how to put it more simply.
If you don't, then you need a couple of lessons in basic self defense.
If you do, then you are disagreeing with yourself.
I really don't know how to put it more simply.
I find your If A=B and B=C, therefore A=C approach too simplistic.
12-09-2010 | 08:45 PM
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I really haven't, it just doesn't make sense to try. And ABC equals whatever is not exactly what I'm saying.
About not all pilots having access to the cockpit... you're saying a persons "trusted" status changes depending on what his duties are on board?
12-09-2010 | 09:25 PM
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he was carrying what was allowed, no?
just like the 9/11 hijackers actually- they carried nothing illegal on those airplanes.
if someone is resourceful enough, they will do it. which is exactly why our way of security will continue to fail. focus what resources we do have for now on the greatest perceivable threat, which is certainly not the ones already trust with control of the aircraft.
just like the 9/11 hijackers actually- they carried nothing illegal on those airplanes.
if someone is resourceful enough, they will do it. which is exactly why our way of security will continue to fail. focus what resources we do have for now on the greatest perceivable threat, which is certainly not the ones already trust with control of the aircraft.
I think the tsa should ride along on all jumpseats to protect us 
12-10-2010 | 06:40 AM
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12-10-2010 | 08:03 AM
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We've been doing this screening for how many years now and stopped how many actively employed pilots? 0
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