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Old Jun 7, 2007 | 6:53 pm
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Originally Posted by law dawg
If cargo planes are such a tempting target, then why haven't they been used in three decades?

Answer : because a terrorist's job is to create terror. Civilian aviation is more bang for the buck than cargo. Its hits economically, structurally and culturally.
Answer: In the past it was more difficult to get into cargo planes than passenger planes. A hijacker just had to announce his intentions and he was quietly given a free ride until the plane touched down somewhere.

Now that the difficulty of taking a passenger plane has gone up, we may well see future attacks on cargo or corporate aviation.

Future commercial aviation terrorists who want to gain control of an aircraft would probably need to employ some sort of chemical attack, rather than the crude force of 9/11.

As the complexity of the plan goes up, so does the likelihood of failure.
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