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Originally posted by DragonMage:
Just some FYI from a news report the other day on this...
According to the report, the bullets they would use are not 'normal' bullets. Enough to stop a hijacker (i.e. - rubber bullets, but not sure exactly) but not enough to rip through a person and/or the plane; therefore little to no danger of that happening. If that makes you feel any better about it.
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Yes, it does
But it still easy to spot them out. All you need is a group of 4 who boards a plane. First, you put one guy at the security stand. He watches just to find out who gets through the crew side doors. Anybody in plane close would be a potential airmarshall (they will not be going through normal security because of their weapons, they'll have a special pass and go through crew door. Then, you have a second and third guy on the way to the gate where the plane is. The final and last guy is at the gate itself, sitting, reading his journal.
The first guy just tags the potential airmarshalls as they clear security. From there, the other two keep and eye out for them and by hand signals communicate between them to ID. The final guy is sitting at the gate to find out if he's coming on the flight. If he is, note is face.
Once on the plane, our so be terrorists just have to find out who the airmarshall are. One or two go to the bathrooms and now, you know where they are. Another 2 or 3 go to the washroom and in a coordinated effort, take them out. Now, we have terrorists with gun instead of knives or box cutters.
Just a small possibilities. It's not a good idea... and this doesn't even take into account that terrorist could obtain Air Marshalls ID and bring their own weapons onto the plane.
If the system is wise, and for the overall security reasons, their should be more than one airmarshall per plane and they should NOT know who the other is.
I still believe that the cabin should be a sterile environment. Hell, you can put a bomb into a palm pilot and that would be enough to bring a plane down. Thighter security at airports is the answers, not people armed on planes.
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