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Re:U.S. Fines Airlines More Than $7M for Not Providing Refunds by bluGill on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @03:11PM (#33629811)
You can make one yourself: How many hijackings of US airlines where there in the 20 years before, and after. The number was higher before, but it was very small.

Locking the airplane cockpit door, along with awareness that hijackers will kill you (as opposed to fly you to a different country and you are free in a couple days if you stay quiet) are also factors. I don't know how to separate them from anything the TSA does, but I have to believe those are both more important.

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Re:U.S. Fines Airlines More Than $7M for Not Providing Refunds by Grimburger on Thursday November 17, 2022 @12:40AM (#33635405)
> Locking the airplane cockpit door

A change which contributed to the complete loss of an aircraft and all aboard when the pilot left to go to the toilet and the copilot locked the door to crash it into a mountainside. The law of unintended consequences in full effect. Had such a change not been enacted that flight likely would have survived.

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

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