RE: Analysis from a JHU CS Prof
|> From: Dan Hollis [mailto:goemon@anime.net] |> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:47 AM |> |> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Vadim Antonov wrote: |> > Locked bulletproof door to the cockpit. Survelliance cameras in the |> > passenger compartments. That all which was needed to foil |> the attack. Now |> > I think it's time to ask why this isn't the standard procedure? |> |> Or they could just fly plainclothes armed marshals on US flights. |> |> Apparently they tried this years ago, but stopped because it was |> "uneconomical". I guess the airlines have figured out how to |> put a dollar |> amount on human lives. excuse me, but I don't think that the airlines were paying for those marshals. Please look towards uncle sugar, for that gaff.
On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
|> Or they could just fly plainclothes armed marshals on US flights. |> |> Apparently they tried this years ago, but stopped because it was |> "uneconomical". I guess the airlines have figured out how to |> put a dollar |> amount on human lives.
excuse me, but I don't think that the airlines were paying for those marshals. Please look towards uncle sugar, for that gaff.
The US government paid for the marshals' airplane tickets? -- Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net tel +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015
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