It seems that nothing is ever perfectly safe and every measure of safety we add has trade offs either in inconvenience money or a different set of risks, but with four planes in one day and this massive death toll, maybe we need to change some of the ways we do the business of flying.
I can't believe that US pilots were in control of those planes which, if true, means that one of the terrorist passengers were. Maybe it's time to figure a way to physically isolate and secure the cockpit from the passenger section of the plane before take off. It would be inconvenient for the crew in some ways I guess, and a doctor or another pilot in the passenger section couldn't act in some emergencies we could forsee, but short of explosives or a torch, it would stop this kind of nutcase takeovers.
I just don't want to see this again.
I can't believe that US pilots were in control of those planes which, if true, means that one of the terrorist passengers were. Maybe it's time to figure a way to physically isolate and secure the cockpit from the passenger section of the plane before take off. It would be inconvenient for the crew in some ways I guess, and a doctor or another pilot in the passenger section couldn't act in some emergencies we could forsee, but short of explosives or a torch, it would stop this kind of nutcase takeovers.
I just don't want to see this again.