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http://www.strategypage.com/fyeo/qnd...get=URBANG.HTM excerpt: While passenger aircraft are now pretty secure, the same is not the case for commercial freighters and private aircraft. It is quite possible that a smaller aircraft, or long range transports from foreign nations, could be used for suicide attacks. This scenario has terrorists renting a small two engine aircraft (like the Piper Aztec or Cessna Businessliner) and flying off to any target within several hundred miles. These aircraft rent for about $250 an hour (with a 3-4 hour minimum). They have a cargo capacity of about half a ton, and that could be filled with explosives. This would give the terrorists the equivalent of an American cruise missile (which has a one ton warhead.) These aircraft have a maximum take off weight of about three tons and only carry about 500 pounds of fuel. Probably would not bring down a large skyscraper, but would do a lot of damage to the White House or most other government buildings in Washington. You can buy these aircraft second hand for $200-300,000. I hate stuff like this, but I think it's better to toss it out there and shine light on it than stick my head in the sand and pretend it isn't there. www.Rosspilot.com |
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You can also drive down a street shooting people at random and there is not
much anybody can do to stop you. Sure, it is possible to use small aircraft for a terrorist attack. The question is, what do you do about it? There is really not much of anything anyone can do to prevent it. Maybe the asteroid is coming, but I am not going to spend a lot of time worrying about it. |
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The truth is using a small aircraft for a terrorist act would be pretty
easy, cheap and effective. The other side of that is, of course, so what? As we all know, it is easy to rent a truck, strap explosives around one's body, bring guns into a school, etc. The issue is not the delivery mechanism. As has been said often, and again recently in this forum, we are becoming a cowering nation. I have no problem acting upon real and significant threats, but I hate the insidious use of the "war on terror" to shape public policy that infringes on rights and diseminates meaningless alerts, leading to "news " articles about simple acts like busting airspace and fashion changes to airport friendly shoes... Sometimes I feel like I must have been born at the luckiest time in US history. I spent my 20's and 30's after WWII, polio, smallpox, the depression... before AIDS, overcrowded cities, and now the war on terrorism. Michael "Rosspilot" wrote in message ... http://www.strategypage.com/fyeo/qnd...get=URBANG.HTM excerpt: While passenger aircraft are now pretty secure, the same is not the case for commercial freighters and private aircraft. It is quite possible that a smaller aircraft, or long range transports from foreign nations, could be used for suicide attacks. This scenario has terrorists renting a small two engine aircraft (like the Piper Aztec or Cessna Businessliner) and flying off to any target within several hundred miles. These aircraft rent for about $250 an hour (with a 3-4 hour minimum). They have a cargo capacity of about half a ton, and that could be filled with explosives. This would give the terrorists the equivalent of an American cruise missile (which has a one ton warhead.) These aircraft have a maximum take off weight of about three tons and only carry about 500 pounds of fuel. Probably would not bring down a large skyscraper, but would do a lot of damage to the White House or most other government buildings in Washington. You can buy these aircraft second hand for $200-300,000. I hate stuff like this, but I think it's better to toss it out there and shine light on it than stick my head in the sand and pretend it isn't there. www.Rosspilot.com |
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This would be the typical answer from a GA pilot. For the vast majority of
non-pilots (which is reality), they have NOTHING to lose by shutting down GA. The benefits for them are clear -- elimination of another threat which they have no knowledge about. On the other hand, guns or other items which could be used to kill are owned by a large diverse group of people. Trying to ban those could be highly detrimental to a politicians career if not worse. For us, the answer is clear, as you have put it below, try to look at it from the other side of the chainlink fence. The AOPA and the few in government interested in aviation are the only people standing between us and the shutting down of GA as we know it. "C J Campbell" wrote in message ... You can also drive down a street shooting people at random and there is not much anybody can do to stop you. Sure, it is possible to use small aircraft for a terrorist attack. The question is, what do you do about it? There is really not much of anything anyone can do to prevent it. Maybe the asteroid is coming, but I am not going to spend a lot of time worrying about it. |
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Why? Why is it necessary to use this forum to discuss alternatives that
terrorist can use to destroy what they will? Doesn't the news folks do a good enough job of telling these individuals our weaknesses? Aren't there enough people already making enough suggestions? I'm sorry. I'm just getting really tired of turning on TV or the radio and the first item in the news is a story for the terrorist on how they might consider an attack. And now, "we" are going to take it a step further with more ideas. Why? I wonder how many terrorist read this and other "informative" newsgroups and listen to CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, CNN, etc.....??? Harry PP-ASEL "Rosspilot" wrote in message ... http://www.strategypage.com/fyeo/qnd...get=URBANG.HTM excerpt: While passenger aircraft are now pretty secure, the same is not the case for commercial freighters and private aircraft. It is quite possible that a smaller aircraft, or long range transports from foreign nations, could be used for suicide attacks. This scenario has terrorists renting a small two engine aircraft (like the Piper Aztec or Cessna Businessliner) and flying off to any target within several hundred miles. These aircraft rent for about $250 an hour (with a 3-4 hour minimum). They have a cargo capacity of about half a ton, and that could be filled with explosives. This would give the terrorists the equivalent of an American cruise missile (which has a one ton warhead.) These aircraft have a maximum take off weight of about three tons and only carry about 500 pounds of fuel. Probably would not bring down a large skyscraper, but would do a lot of damage to the White House or most other government buildings in Washington. You can buy these aircraft second hand for $200-300,000. I hate stuff like this, but I think it's better to toss it out there and shine light on it than stick my head in the sand and pretend it isn't there. www.Rosspilot.com |
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I think AOPA has made a major strategic error with their "Small planes
aren't a terrorist hazard." line. If someone pulls off an attack with one, their whole position will collapse like a balloon pricked with a pin. The fact is that small planes are an incredible hazard. Face it, there is almost nothing that could stop a determined and willing to die pilot flying 50 agl unless exactly the right equipment and an AWACS are right on the spot. We have enough of that to cover about .005% of the potential targets that would paralyze the country with fear. The real point is that GA aircraft are just one of about 500 such threats. If it is justified to shut down GA then it is justified to lock down the whole society. Destroying people's livelihoods and freedom when it won't make the country as a whole safer but just move the threat from planes to trucks, boats, you name it, is a precedent for a future grimmer in many ways than the one we are in now. Hell, a determined group could slowly fill an apartment in Manhattan with rad waste and explosives carried in over a period of weeks in cardboard boxes. Who pays attention to people moving in and out of cheap apartments in New York? Shall we outlaw carrying cardboard boxes up stairs? They have to catch these people where they live or at the borders. Trying piecemeal to eliminate or control activities that could be part of a terrorist plot will lead inevitably to a society more restricted and controlled than even the one radical Islam envisions. Now they are worried about carrying almanacs! I kid you not. See CNN or my other post. -- Roger Long |
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"Harry Gordon" wrote in message
... Why is it necessary to use this forum to discuss alternatives that terrorist can use to destroy what they will? ... I wonder how many terrorist read this and other "informative" newsgroups and listen to CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, CNN, etc.....??? Don't worry. If we could get Al Qaeda to watch our TV news, their IQs would so decline that they'd no longer be able to find the US on a map. |
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Don't worry. If we could get Al Qaeda to watch our TV news, their IQs would so decline that they'd no longer be able to find the US on a map. The US is on a map? Jose -- (for Email, make the obvious changes in my address) |
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"Michael 182" wrote in message
Sometimes I feel like I must have been born at the luckiest time in US history. I spent my 20's and 30's after WWII, polio, smallpox, the depression... before AIDS, overcrowded cities, and now the war on terrorism. Oh yeah? Well I spent those years on the 70s and 80s. Sex, sex and rock and roll! Beat THAT! -- Jim Fisher |
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Say what you will about these guys, but I would not underestimate them. It
is rather likely they have thought about it a long time ago. "Harry Gordon" wrote in message ... Why? Why is it necessary to use this forum to discuss alternatives that terrorist can use to destroy what they will? Doesn't the news folks do a good enough job of telling these individuals our weaknesses? Aren't there enough people already making enough suggestions? I'm sorry. I'm just getting really tired of turning on TV or the radio and the first item in the news is a story for the terrorist on how they might consider an attack. And now, "we" are going to take it a step further with more ideas. Why? I wonder how many terrorist read this and other "informative" newsgroups and listen to CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, CNN, etc.....??? Harry PP-ASEL "Rosspilot" wrote in message ... http://www.strategypage.com/fyeo/qnd...get=URBANG.HTM excerpt: While passenger aircraft are now pretty secure, the same is not the case for commercial freighters and private aircraft. It is quite possible that a smaller aircraft, or long range transports from foreign nations, could be used for suicide attacks. This scenario has terrorists renting a small two engine aircraft (like the Piper Aztec or Cessna Businessliner) and flying off to any target within several hundred miles. These aircraft rent for about $250 an hour (with a 3-4 hour minimum). They have a cargo capacity of about half a ton, and that could be filled with explosives. This would give the terrorists the equivalent of an American cruise missile (which has a one ton warhead.) These aircraft have a maximum take off weight of about three tons and only carry about 500 pounds of fuel. Probably would not bring down a large skyscraper, but would do a lot of damage to the White House or most other government buildings in Washington. You can buy these aircraft second hand for $200-300,000. I hate stuff like this, but I think it's better to toss it out there and shine light on it than stick my head in the sand and pretend it isn't there. www.Rosspilot.com |
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