[ladyinred]

To say that planes can no longer be flown into buildings is silly. Of course they can. Please, are you trying to be funny, or do you actually believe this?

[Yaelle]

I only meant that if terrorists stand up and announce they've got a bomb and everyone should please stay in their seats, etc., it is NOT going to work on the post 9/11 American people. We will fight to the death not to give control of the planes to the highjackers. Nor would the pilots let anyone in the cockpit even upon threat of death to the passengers.

9/11 has changed us. Now we know that they intend to die in their acts of terror, so there is no reason to "obey" them. Previously, people fell in line with the terrorists because they only wanted to divert planes, not explode them with all aboard.

To get control of a plane would be very difficult now, IMHO, but perhaps blowing one up would not. Perhaps all that is left to the terrorists is to blow up a plane from within when over a city. I can't see how they would get control of passenger planes and actually get to fly them into buildings. I repeat that I think it cannot be done today.