Originally Posted by
law dawg
Useless in the back. The event would be over before anyone in the back knew what was happening and could make their way up to the front.
FAMs have often stayed put until the incident was over anyway, only stepping in after the pax handled it.
If cargo planes are such a tempting target, then why haven't they been used in three decades?
I thought you always told us that just because it hasn't been used in ages that it couldn't happen again?
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.
You think it really makes a difference if an airliner or a FedEx plane crashes into a building like the WTC? The body count won't change that much. Maybe it won't create as much "terror", but if it's much easier to get a cargo plane than a passenger plane, don't you think terrorists would go where the better chance is?
This is like having a steel safe door for your front door but having a screen door for the back.
You can't ignore soemthing just because it isn't as visible to the public. That's why what we have is theater. All special effects, but not plot.