[geeks] My take

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

> On another note about plane security. Specifically it sucks. There are 
> reports that the plain that crashed in PA was taken over with knives. 
> There is a very simple solution to these types of problems - put a 
> think door on the cockpit which can only be locked and opened from the 
> inside. Make it bulletproof. That alone would prevent almost all 
> terrorist attacks of this type. Secondly, put the planes on 
> computerized flight control. Override would be from the control towers 
> only or by a code inputed by the pilot. Pressing a hijack button would 
> disallow the pilot to disable the computer.
> 
Try airport security.  Once when going to a plane at Newark Airport I observed
a "worker" walk through a door from an area that I was in, walk across a "road",
through a gate in a chain-link fence and up to a plane that was boarding from my terminal.  
He could have delievered a "package" to the luggage bay.  I have to go though a metal
detector and they search my carry-on.  What ever happened to those "sky marshals" they
hired years ago when hijackings were epidemic?