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To: IncPen

I want to know if they are going to mention the fact that Gore's recommendation to harden cockpit doors was taken down in exchange for campaign donations from the airline industry.


242 posted on 07/22/2004 9:35:29 AM PDT by OldFriend (IF YOU CAN READ THIS, THANK A TEACHER.......AND SINCE IT'S IN ENGLISH, THANK A SOLDIER)
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To: OldFriend
Pg 85 ... This prevailing Common Strategy of cooperation and nonconfrontation meant that even a hardened cockpit door would have made little difference in a hijacking.As the chairman of the Security Committee of the Air Line Pilots Association observed when proposals were made in early 2001 to install rein-forced cockpit doors in commercial aircraft,“Even if you make a vault out of the door, if they have a noose around my flight attendant’s neck, I’m going to open the door.”
254 posted on 07/22/2004 9:38:34 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good" HRC 6/28/2004)
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