“Planes were being hijacked to Cuba all the time in the 1960s.”
I definitely remember that. That’s when security at airports became a thing. After 9/11 it went nuclear.
I was in high school when the first plane got itself Cubajacked. Had to be about 1958. The Koobans let the guy off and sent everybody back, no harm done, sort of.
I never understood at the time, and never have, why the passengers put up with that krap. It seems it took the Shanksville passengers on 9-11 to wake everybody else up to how sitting on ones butt ain’t gonna work out.
Endlessly fascinating to me that even when passengers saw the ‘jackers using box cutters on the crew they still sat on their hands.
Security at airports? Yup, sure, last time I flew they took a bottle of water away from me. But they still allow box cutters and three inch knives. The stoopid never quits. It should be the airlines doing the screening. Not the Fedgov. If the airlines want a “clean “ load they should make it themselves instead of making everybody else pay for it.
On any given day I have enough weapons on me to finish a fight. But that crowd has no bleeping idea what they’re looking at.
As a yute, I remember headline-grabbing hijackings thru the 70s even into the 80s. Recalled these 3 off the top of my head...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entebbe_raid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achille_Lauro_hijacking