I did not imply that "FAMs are only effective when it comes to hijackings with the point of crashing the plane?" I was responding to this post:

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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.



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.

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Originally Posted by PatrickHenry1775
How often had passenger airliners been used as guided missiles before 9/11/2001? Imaginative terrorists will unfortunately probably trump bureaucrats fighting the last war.


Al-Qaeda is patient and adaptive, studying the infidels' behavior and SOP for years before planning and carrying out attacks. Sure, on 9/11/2001 the jihadists targeted civilian aviation. But as an earlier poster noted, if terrorists were to commandeer cargo planes and crash them into the White House, Capitol, Empire State Building, Sears Tower, JFK airport, LAX, SFO, MIA, IAH, etc., the United States would again be traumatized. DHS would probably shut down civil aviation for some time to figure out a better system of tracking flights. TSA and FAMs would not discourage this sort of plot.

That was my point in my earlier response.