OT: Counter-Terrorism is a Farce

[Renegade 13]

Not to mention sudden depressurization of the passenger cabin when someone starts shooting. Might have some problems there, but other than that, go for it.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Tazers. The ones where the electrodes shoot out.

Doesn't damage the plane and probably still lethal from sheer numbers.

'Kill them all' is a terrorist threat.

[Atrocities]

Oh come on we all know that Terrorism is just something that someone made up in order to sell T-shirts!

Seriously I agree with the nuts that they know where Bin Laden is but won't go get him because that would erode any and all political necessity for continuing the "war on terror."

That they knew where Sarcowie (sp) was all along but waited until the need was great enough politically, to kill that fat bastard extremist.

It takes a well funded and semi well trained group of fanaticial terrorists to take over a plane and I seriously doubt that Grandma and her sun tan lotion is part of the master plan.

[Jack Simth]

Once you have the fanatical terrorist, it actually doesn't cost as much as you might think.

You need:
One computer capable of running a flight simulator.
One flight simulator program.
Enough plane tickets to get your crew aboard the plane.
Enough weapons to arm your crew.

The planes used in the 9/11/01 attacks flew low so they could FOLLOW THE FREEWAYS! Landing and taking off is the difficult part. Not the flying (many airlines actually have a computer do most the in-flight flying anymore, excepting some things from the air traffic controllers about specific routes due to other planes and the like). The hijackers didn't have to deal with either landing or taking off, nor pre-flight checklists, nor dealing with air-traffic control, or.....

[Phoenix-D]

Right now you also need:

One way to convince the passengers not to kill your ***.

or you get one crashed plane and nothing else. 200v5, 200 wins unless the 5 manage to sneak something really nasty past security.