[paulk]

duhh - what hapens when they cut power to this system?

Dumb- dumber - come on guys think!

What a waste of money.

[exit82]

Won't work on the Airbus. The pilot will try to turn left, and the plane will try to turn right. Then the tail falls off.

[ALASKA]

I hope this technology can be refined down to a personal level. It sounds like a perfect way to keep an ex-GF or two away.

[freekitty]

I think it's great. The article says the buildings have batteries so you don't need power. Bagdad didn't have any power when these planes were used so they must have used something.

[Cicero]

A very elaborate and expensive system like this will only introduce new dangers.

[AmericanVictory]

How about an Evelyn Waugh defense system, in which we hire interior decorators from the demimonde to go exterior and layer all major metro areas in steel and foam rubber? It would be about as practical.

[txzman]

Heard an expert on Fox talk about an easier, even more chilling attck plan the FBI has been looking at.

Terrorists infiltrating (rather easily) airport runways during peak traffic hours and setting off small, multiple bombs on fully-gassed airliners as they load/unload on the runway. The results at some of the crowded airports in the US and Europe would be catastrophic.

Requirements to do this would be minimal in terms of explosives, planning, cost and people.

[yooper]

This is all well and good, but it ignores the potential victims in the plane itself.

Arming the pilots and placing law enforcement aboard would be much more efficient and cost effective...

[RonHolzwarth]

Why aren't new planes designed with a separate compartment for the pilots?
For instance, the pilots in a jumbo jet could be beneath the passenger compartment, with no way for anyone to get through.
The pilots would then not ever be distracted by events in the passenger compartment, that would be up to the flight attendents.
AND, they would also have a much better view of the runway on take offs and landings!

[tm22721]

Actually the next threat is probably from a home made cruise missile flying at 100' that will take out the oval office or Capitol.

BUMP