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Old 01-21-2005, 06:46 PM
Brian Carlton Brian Carlton is offline
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Originally Posted by VollkommenWar
With events of late, screw the gym, is there no anti-missile protection on that plane of 840 people??
No commercial airliners (other than those flown by ElAl) have anti-missile protection, AFAIK.

If one of our friends wants to take out an airliner during landing or takeoff, they are basically sitting ducks. Our senator, Mr. Chuck Shumer, has pressured the administration to provide funds to equip all U.S. commercial airliners with suitable devices to protect against these missiles (about 1M per aircraft). So far, his words have fallen on deaf ears in the administration. They are much too busy trying to prevent older women from carrying toenail clippers onto aircraft.

Unfortunately, it's going to take a shoulder fired missle to bring an airliner down in the U.S. before the administration wakes up to the threat. This administration is good at that.
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