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Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ... by bdangubic on Monday February 10, 2025 @07:24PM (#43007219)
sure, that is why we have all these on-board incidents and terrorist attacks crashing airplanes left and right with millions of people flying daily :)
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Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ... by sosborn on Monday February 10, 2025 @07:59PM (#43007588)
How regularly was that happening pre-911?
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Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ... by cogman10 on Monday February 10, 2025 @08:20PM (#43007782)
We'd see a plane hijack roughly once per year. Though it wasn't common for the hijacker to try and kill everyone on board.
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Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ... by bdangubic on Monday February 10, 2025 @08:33PM (#43007896)
about once per year but it makes no difference what happened pre 9/11 - it matters what we did to ensure that 9/11 doesn't happen again
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Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ... by insane_dreamer on Monday February 10, 2025 @09:06PM (#43008150)
Lots in the 70s but by the 90s it was very infrequent in the US. And most hijackings did not result in casualties (or very few casualties). People didn’t hijack with intent to kill the selves and everyone on board. Probably more people died from the shooting down of planes by militaries than by hijackings.
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Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ... by Lammy on Monday February 10, 2025 @08:33PM (#43007897)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgNvKr010pc
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