[LurkedLongEnough]

The big sticking point about this topic is "What if a terrorist disguised as a pilot and who has a gun gets into the cockpit?"

[William Tell]

LurkedLongEnough said: The big sticking point about this topic is "What if a terrorist disguised as a pilot and who has a gun gets into the cockpit?"

You are kidding, right?

If a terrorist disguised as a pilot gets into the cockpit, just what is it that he would do with the gun? Shoot the co-pilot? Force the stewardess to bring him coffee?

What mechanism can be used to prevent bringing a firearm into the cockpit of a plane but which could somehow fail to prevent a terrorist disguised as a pilot from getting to the cockpit?

What would happen if a terrorist disguised as a sky-marshal brought a gun onto an aircraft? Is this a reason to disarm sky-marshals?