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To: Man50D
A small aircraft could be flown by a lone terrorist operating as his own terrorist cell.

Or drive his own truck stacked to the roof with barrels of gasoline.

Which do you think would more likely take down a building and kill more people: 1) a U-Haul truck, big one, filled past gross weight with barrels of gasoline and driven into the lobby of that building. or 2) a four seat airplane, filled past gross weight with every ounce it can hoist off the ground with gasoline flown into the side of the building?

Since the truck would haul, oh, maybe 25-35 times more gasoline, and it would go off inside the ground floor trapping everyone inside, I vote that U-Haul trucks are far more dangerous.

Oh, and how many potential terrorists are trained to drive airplanes vs. know how to drive a truck? How easy is it to get a U-Haul vs. get an airplane?

Come on people, think.

1,744 posted on 10/11/2006 4:35:04 PM PDT by narby
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To: narby

Perhaps some of us just think about things differently.


1,759 posted on 10/11/2006 4:50:17 PM PDT by sarasota
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To: narby
<Which do you think would more likely take down a building and kill more people: 1) a U-Haul truck, big one, filled past gross weight with barrels of gasoline and driven into the lobby of that building. or 2) a four seat airplane, filled past gross weight with every ounce it can hoist off the ground with gasoline flown into the side of the building?

I can't answer that question since I'm not a terrorist but I do know if my assumption is wrong the worst case scenario is nothing happens. If your assumption is wrong the worst case scenario is such a terrorist event could happen. In fact this very scenario was being discussed today on Fox News by a security expert and a former FAA official.

Oh, and how many potential terrorists are trained to drive airplanes vs. know how to drive a truck? How easy is it to get a U-Haul vs. get an airplane?

The terrorists who flew the commercial jetliners on 9/11/01 had far more training than would be required to fly the aircraft involve in today's crash. Approximately 2-3 years ago a kid flew a small aircraft into a building in Florida to commit suicide. A terrorist could certainly do the same.

Come on people, think.

I suggest you take your own advice.

1,760 posted on 10/11/2006 4:51:27 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
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