To: Rudolph
Learn english, the word is "flown" not "flyed". I guess you are from Isreal? And, yes, I have, and, no, the security is symbolic, but it doesn't stop terorrist. It certainly would not have stopped these terrorists.
I repeat: These terrorists used valid boarding passes, boarded with or without legal knives, and did nothing, absofreeping nothing, illegal before committing their crimes. So, how would any other security have stopped this?
# 29 by PatrioticAmerican *************************
It could have been stopped by waiting to see if the idiot with the knife was actually crazy enough to kill the stewardess, and when he did, killing the fool with your gun.
Maybe you didn't pay attention on your Israeli airline flight. Weapons are allowed to the crew. It's not like our purely "symbolic" method of walking through a metal detector.
The point is security measures. All the security checks in the world will not stop a determined terrorist. A well trained attacker can board a plane butt naked, and still cause it to crash or possible take over the plane.