Originally Posted by
birdstrike
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.
Always a probability. No doubt. But, honestly, does taking over a cargo plane have the same visceral impact as a civilian jet liner? Would it affect the economy as much? Because another hijacking would severely hurt the airline industry for a long time. Hijacking a cargo plane only really affects that plane and anywhere it crashes. It won't affect civilian aviation (as much I don't think, although it would a little.)
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.
They used chemicals on 9/11.
As the complexity of the plan goes up, so does the likelihood of failure.
In this we are in 100% agreement.