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RE: Analysis from a JHU CS Prof

  • From: Roeland Meyer
  • Date: Wed Sep 12 04:53:36 2001

|> From: Dan Hollis [mailto:[email protected]]
|> 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.