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Old August 13th 04, 03:23 PM
Hilton
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C J Campbell wrote:
The whole thing seems incredibly dangerous to me. What if they start

pulling
out their weapons and making threatening movements during the flight? A
pilot might kill them first and ask questions later.


Or get distracted, crash, and have NBC run a program on how GA killed two of
theirs, small planes are dangerous, etc etc etc...

Hilton


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Old August 13th 04, 03:40 PM
C J Campbell
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"Hilton" wrote in message
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C J Campbell wrote:
The whole thing seems incredibly dangerous to me. What if they start

pulling
out their weapons and making threatening movements during the flight? A
pilot might kill them first and ask questions later.


Or get distracted, crash, and have NBC run a program on how GA killed two

of
theirs, small planes are dangerous, etc etc etc...


I would destroy an airplane before letting a terrorist have it. If I crashed
under such circumstances it would be deliberate. I would attempt to make
sure that ATC knew what was going on and I might attempt to make the crash
survivable, but those would be secondary priorities. There being no way to
tell the difference between reporters acting like terrorists and terrorists
claiming to be reporters, I would assume that they might say anything or
produce any kind of supposed documentation if their lives were threatened.
Kill them first, I say, and let NBC explain things later if turns out their
guys were real.

Just like an NBC reporter to bring a Leatherman to a gunfight. :-)

Honestly, though, it bothers me that so many pilots seem to think that a
moment's distraction is enough to cause you to lose control of an airplane.
What kind of pilot skill is that?


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Old August 13th 04, 05:09 PM
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"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"Hilton" wrote in message
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C J Campbell wrote:
The whole thing seems incredibly dangerous to me. What if they start

pulling
out their weapons and making threatening movements during the flight?

A
pilot might kill them first and ask questions later.


Or get distracted, crash, and have NBC run a program on how GA killed

two
of
theirs, small planes are dangerous, etc etc etc...


I would destroy an airplane before letting a terrorist have it. If I

crashed
under such circumstances it would be deliberate. I would attempt to make
sure that ATC knew what was going on and I might attempt to make the crash
survivable, but those would be secondary priorities. There being no way to
tell the difference between reporters acting like terrorists and

terrorists
claiming to be reporters, I would assume that they might say anything or
produce any kind of supposed documentation if their lives were threatened.
Kill them first, I say, and let NBC explain things later if turns out

their
guys were real.



I would say a reporter ACTING like a terrorist IS a terrorist and should be
dealt with accordingly. At some point it is to late to say "Uh, just
kidding".

Allen


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Old August 14th 04, 12:54 AM
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"Allen" wrote in message
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"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"Hilton" wrote in message
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C J Campbell wrote:
The whole thing seems incredibly dangerous to me. What if they start
pulling
out their weapons and making threatening movements during the

flight?
A
pilot might kill them first and ask questions later.

Or get distracted, crash, and have NBC run a program on how GA killed

two
of
theirs, small planes are dangerous, etc etc etc...


I would destroy an airplane before letting a terrorist have it. If I

crashed
under such circumstances it would be deliberate. I would attempt to make
sure that ATC knew what was going on and I might attempt to make the

crash
survivable, but those would be secondary priorities. There being no way

to
tell the difference between reporters acting like terrorists and

terrorists
claiming to be reporters, I would assume that they might say anything or
produce any kind of supposed documentation if their lives were

threatened.
Kill them first, I say, and let NBC explain things later if turns out

their
guys were real.



I would say a reporter ACTING like a terrorist IS a terrorist and should

be
dealt with accordingly. At some point it is to late to say "Uh, just
kidding".

Much like committing an armed robbery with a fake or unloaded weapon is "no
excuse".

In the South you could just say "They needed killin'!".


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Old August 13th 04, 08:49 PM
Eric Pinnell
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On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:40:48 -0700, "C J Campbell"
wrote:


I would destroy an airplane before letting a terrorist have it. If I crashed
under such circumstances it would be deliberate. I would attempt to make
sure that ATC knew what was going on and I might attempt to make the crash
survivable, but those would be secondary priorities. There being no way to
tell the difference between reporters acting like terrorists and terrorists
claiming to be reporters, I would assume that they might say anything or
produce any kind of supposed documentation if their lives were threatened.
Kill them first, I say, and let NBC explain things later if turns out their
guys were real.

Just like an NBC reporter to bring a Leatherman to a gunfight. :-)

Honestly, though, it bothers me that so many pilots seem to think that a
moment's distraction is enough to cause you to lose control of an airplane.
What kind of pilot skill is that?


WTF is a terrorist going to do with a GA plane? If they were to seize
it, they'd have to land it somewhere and fill it with a bomb. By then,
ATC would be alerted and said plane would have a hard time going
anywhere.
Then again, this is an attempt to screw over GA by forcing private
pilots and their passengers to go through the insane TSA security.



Eric Pinnell

(Author, "Steel Rain", "Claws of The Dragon", "The Omega File")

For a preview, see: http://www.ericpinnell.com/books/previews.shtml
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Old August 16th 04, 06:49 AM
Hilton
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C J Campbell wrote:
Honestly, though, it bothers me that so many pilots seem to think that a
moment's distraction is enough to cause you to lose control of an

airplane.
What kind of pilot skill is that?


Me thinks you're trivializing one guy sitting right next to you, another
right behind you with his arm around your neck, both screaming and shouting
and holding knifes at your neck.

Hilton


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Old August 16th 04, 02:48 PM
C J Campbell
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"Hilton" wrote in message
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C J Campbell wrote:
Honestly, though, it bothers me that so many pilots seem to think that a
moment's distraction is enough to cause you to lose control of an

airplane.
What kind of pilot skill is that?


Me thinks you're trivializing one guy sitting right next to you, another
right behind you with his arm around your neck, both screaming and

shouting
and holding knifes at your neck.


Well, if they are going to disable the pilot, that is a little more than
what I generally think of as a "distraction." Anyway, if things got that far
then the airplane might as well be allowed to destroy itself. You have to
figure that you're dead anyway.


 




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