We need to be thinking what these targets might be and keeping our eyes open. The public at large definitely tends to take things more at face value. If a Freeper sees a middle east looking type taking pictures of a chemical plant, we don't assume that Achmed is just a foreign student taking tourist pictures. I know that I would be making a citizen's arrest on his ass, and he better have more than a boxcutter.
I agree that these planes and such could be crashed into something == particularly if explosives happen to have been brought onboard.