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2003-08-12 Fifth Column

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Posted by Secret Master 2003-08-12 6:59:22 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight........

Posted by Raj 2003-8-12 7:12:55 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2003-8-12 7:12:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Talk to any airline pilot about hardened cockpit doors and they will tell you it's a double edged sword. In case of emergency, the door may be the only way out for the pilots. Any deformation in the airframe may cause the door to be un-openable. In such a case, a normal door may still be forced open, perhaps with an axe, but with a hardened door, it may be that much harder to do so. This is perhaps why that "old report" Nader mentioned had been dropped.

But of course, I doubt that Nader ever thinks about things like this.

Posted by Raphael 2003-8-12 7:41:16 PM|| 2003-8-12 7:41:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 So he thinks he would have been able to order an immediate stand-down of the whole passenger air fleet redesign and refit equipment on every kind of airliner between inauguration 01/01 and 11/01 ? Without being impeached over the airline bankruptcies, massive layoffs and economic disruption? He would have, I guess, waved the report around and said, "I just saved you ungrateful jerks from certain terrorist attack." The two most discouraging thoughts that come to my mind are 1.) He has a constituency to whom his couterfactuals seem plausible, 2.) None of the above mentioned follow up questions seem to have occured to the interviewing journalist.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-8-12 9:26:21 PM|| 2003-8-12 9:26:21 PM|| Front Page Top

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