"sophisticated, precise, well-funded"?

Kevin Robert Dean qualiall_2 at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 11 18:42:22 PDT 2001



>From what I understsand, small pocket knives and box cutters are perfectly
acceptable to bring onto a plane...

KRD


> At the risk of sounding like Robert Luttwak, what does it really take to
do
> something like this? Once someone gets past concern about their own life
> and organizing with the like-minded, it seems like it doesn't take much.
> After probing the detection devices at different airports, you arm
yourself
> with weapons that can escape detection, read the airline schedules, and
then
> you act. Does it take that much training to fly an airliner once it's
taken
> off? (I've seen that pc-based flight sim experience is accepted for some
> hours in pilot's certification.) From a purely "operational" standpoint,
> couldn't this be done without much central coordination?
> re

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