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Old Jun 6, 2005 | 9:02 am
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Originally Posted by Maxwell Smart
...and that tresspassing, disruption, etc. could lead to loss of life (referring, I assume, to airplane passengers, not to the tresspassers). No obvious sign of guards, etc.

No, they were referring to the trespassers possibly being shot. ATC centers have all had armed guards at least since the early '80s, and probably long before.

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