I sent my letter (minutes after watching program), but like yours better
"Bob" wrote in message
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Dear CBS:

I don't know who was responsible for yesterday's "Eye on America," but
if their collective brains were gasoline, they couldn't power a
****ant's motorcycle around the inside of a Cheerio.

In addition to several blatantly wrong "facts" in your story, which
I'm sure you've heard about by now, there are many reasons that light
planes are not good platforms for terrorist attacks.

For example, you can't carry nearly as much explosive in a small plane
as you can in an SUV, and planes are much less convenient to use for
explosive delivery. There are several reasons for this:

1. More people can drive a car than can fly a light plane. I would
guess this applies to suicidal maniacs too.

2. It's easier to buy, borrow, rent, or steal a car than it is a light
plane.

3. You can park a car and blow it up on a timer. With an airplane
loaded with explosives, timing is a major problem. Modern high
explosives won't explode just from a plane crash. You would have to
set them off a split second before the plane crashed, or have some
kind of detonator that senses a crash and then sets off the explosive.

4. There's not enough fuel in a light plane to work like the airliners
did at the World Trade Towers or the Pentagon.

5. Airplanes are visible on radar. Cars aren't.

I could keep going. The fact is, a car or truck bomb is a lot easier
and more effective for a terrorist than a light plane. Maybe that's
why terrorists use car and truck bombs and rarely, if ever, have used
a light plane successfully.

To summarize, you guys really suck.

Love,

Bob