Originally Posted by boondoggie
Except that it's a lot harder to kill hundreds of people with a small bomb with those other targets. The number of victims is limited by the blast radius. Aircraft are unique in that they fall out of the sky...
Why don't we mandate that the only aircraft an airline can have on its fleet is a 40-50 passenger regional jet then? That'll keep casualties low and therefore make then unattractive to the terrorists.
