Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse

Re:Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse by dorfsmay on Sunday February 21, 2016 @10:07AM (#11144755)

Old style hijack had become rare because police forces around the world made sure that you couldn't come out a winner, you typically get killed. Hijacker are at a disadvantage: limited resources, stuck in a small space easy to surround.

The fact that the 9/11 highjackers had planned to die as part of the hijack was a game changer.

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Re:Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse by matwood on Sunday February 21, 2016 @10:52AM (#11144932)

Exactly. A 9/11 style attack is also a single time event. Now that passengers know the outcome, they simply will not let it happen again. The only possible method would be to turn an existing pilot into a suicide killer.

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Re:Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse by adrianN on Sunday February 21, 2016 @03:06PM (#11146201)

The reinforced doors they introduced after 9/11 make this strategy particularly good. The passengers can't do anything if the pilot decides that he has a death wish.

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Re:Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse by DuskStar on Sunday February 21, 2016 @10:13PM (#11148179)

An example of such would be the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash from May 2015, where the copilot locked the cockpit door after the pilot left for a bathroom break and then flew into a mountain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525

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Re:Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse by matwood on Monday February 22, 2016 @09:17AM (#11150886)

If the pilot has been compromised there is not much that can be done regardless of flight door strength.

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