Originally Posted by eagle92
If the wrong person is in the cockpit he/she doesn't need no stinking password to continue to their target. Not like they are on a track or something.
That's not the point. If the person in the cockpit doesn't have the password, yet continues on toward DCA, the government has more time to scramble fighter jets. Obviously a non-terrorist pilot is not going to go against FAA orders and land at DCA. Just the same as a terrorist isn't going to say, "oops, you're right, I have the wrong password... alright I have my blinker on and I'm heading towards IAD."