Originally Posted by
Superguy
FAMs have often stayed put until the incident was over anyway, only stepping in after the pax handled it.
Not in a hijacking. And remember, that is a FAMs primary responsibility.
I thought you always told us that just because it hasn't been used in ages that it couldn't happen again?
True, but you have to bet the percentages when you have limited resources. Train to handle what happens most and you'll handle most of what happens. I'm not aware of many terrorist hijackings of cargo planes, but I could be wrong too.
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?
Because people won't say "That could have been me on that plane!"
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.
While I agree to a point, you can't harden everything. We have limited resources. We have to spend them accordingly. There have been no cargo terror attacks to my knowledge. There have been many, many in civilian aviation.