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Old 29th April 2007, 12:51 AM
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Lightbulb Re: Preventing Aircraft Hijacks

Remember every should read the "whole" thread before replying. I know its a little daunting to do that, but in my previous post I had clearly told why sleeping gas would be ineffective.

1. Expense: Setup, Research for generic 'gas'.
2. Psychological factors like passengers fear of the whole process, chemical reaction, every person reacts differently to different doses etc thats why we have anesthetists!

Keeping the cockpit 'locked' properly is better that sealing it. Remember many accidents kill people cuz they cant get out easily, way of escape must be present for the pilots too. Maybe the windshield is releaseable. But that can be disastrous! Look below

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next i dont need to hold that gun pointing at your plane drivers(sorry guys i canyt sppell piolet correctly!) coz i would rather threaten the hundreds traveling by your airlines!that should be heart full enough for some governments to suggest negotiations with me!
next thing if my negotiations fail , the aircraft would be landing in some location which the govt feels is secure enough and then i gain company!
either i die or there is mass murder!
'th3 ied kid' meant that even if the cockpit is 'sealed' the terror-ist can threaten the people!! Which is more than enough for a negotiation. So leaving the cockpit door 'as it is thesedays' the terrs will concentrate on the pilot more than the hysterical people and avoid a standout (stalemate) between the terrs and the people while in air. (I am assuming 'gas' system is not present.)

Now for the 4 solutions I would present. (Sorry for another long post)

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Having cameras in the isles which send video feed to the ground base AND to the engineer in the cockpit. They have a locking system for the cockpit door which they control.

2. The 777 economy class has 3 sections (example), thus at the intersection we can have a high powered projectile gun embedded in the division (between toilets wherever). The projectile will be rubber bullets like used by riot police OR taser wires(Click Here). The control for this is to the ground AND the engineer. They can also turn on the trip switch which fires when someone crosses! Its all in their control!

3. the same system but the projectile guns are located either in the ground at random locations or on the ceiling of the aircraft.

4. Having a way to operate the aircraft automatically (AI) in emergency mode and land in the right place or controlling it from the ground. And if the 'Artificial Intelligent system' notices all the terrs are in the cockpit, seal it! And then Autopilot lands it to the desired location!!

The above system can be costly depending on the projectile gun system and installation charges, the video feed and controls are nothing for these big companies considering they are actually looking into security.

(Initially I thought each section can be seal-able, but that also can be too costly and possibly unsafe.

Thankyou for your time I hope its been wasted in a good way And thanks to the people for the different ideas and comments!

And I would love a simulation like 'th3 ied kid' did. It was nice. Good way of trial and error experimentation.
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