> My travel plans will not change, but my awareness and concern
> are heightned. I am willing to support drastic improvements
> in airport security even if it means higher costs and less time
> with friends and family. Please support these efforts.
Absolutely. We all need to be more tolerant of those inconveniences.
I also think that it's going to be a lot rougher for any "successful"
hijacker the next time -- given that the plane is now being used as a weapon
rather than a symbol.
If I knew that I was going [...] into the side of a building,
you can bet I'd be all over that hijacker trying to get the plane back.
I'll bet a lot of other people would do the same thing.
I'd be hesitant to assume that the travelers who got hijacked and perished did not act. Sounds like many of them were brave enough to try to call out for help. There are limits to what else they might have been able to do under the circumstances.
While European travelers know better than American airlines that heightened routine security is possible, I am not sure how much ground security can do about plastic knives or boxcutters.
If second-guessing is appropriate, I think it may eventually focus instead on why existing air tracking and interdiction procedures failed, so that the AA11 casualties (for example) increased from 100 to 60-75,000.
My deep gratitude to the international participants on this list who have shared their condolences with us in the US. Jamie Clark
VP and General Counsel, McLure-Moynihan Inc.
Chair, ABA Business Law Subcommittee on Electronic Commerce
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