[Aquinasfan]

Hopefully this isn't true. Otherwise this means the death of the aviation industry.

[Centurion2000]

Hopefully this isn't true. Otherwise this means the death of the aviation industry.

Oh it is, and it's yet another tiny reason not to fly. I won't fly because I don't feel like being treated like a KGB political prisoner.

[SamAdams76]

I'm only surprised this hasn't happened already. This would seem to be a rather simple terrorist act to carry out in comparison to the planning required to carry out the 9/11 attacks. And you are right, such an act would almost certainly bring down the aviation industry. It would be a long time before you would get me on a plane again and I'm one who flew hundreds of hours in C-130s when I was in the Marines.

What should be our response to such attacks?

Kill them all. Kill every last one of those Islamic terrorist bastards like the cockroaches they are. And completely bar any Muslim from coming into this country ever again.

[Always A Marine]

This has been feared for several years, and expected since last September. We have dozens of very busy commercial airports, each with approach patterns which cover huge areas from which to fire.

You don't necessarily need the latest and greatest Stinger missiles -- there are plenty of old Russian SA-7s floating around. And it wouldn't matter if every attack succeeded in downing its target, as panic would result from any missile attack, not to mention a coordinated attack at multiple airports. The only real trick for the bad guys is smuggling the missiles in, and keeping Aschcroft from detaining their key people -- so pray for the FBI to succeed in these roles. The attack itself is just too easy to do, and impossible to prevent. This truly is the airlines' worst nightmare...

[VOA]

Hopefully this isn't true. Otherwise this means the death of the aviation industry.

Not to worry.
It would mean temporary cessation of civil aviation in the civilized part of the world.
Which would soon resume after the ensuing flood of blood from the mountains to the sea
in many Islamic countries.

Then we would go back to business as usual.

Personally I hope none of this comes to pass...but it seems to grow more likely
with each of these "little" events.