| R. Lee Ermey's Solution to End Hijacking 09 October 2001 Who in the hell are the whackos that our Commander in Chief delegated the responsibility to, of solving America's airplane hijack problem? Whoever they are, allow me to point out the fact that they are either on the side of the Terrorists, or extremely dumb! No parking within 300 yards of the terminal? How brilliant is that! Now we must park to hell an gone away from the terminal and ride a shuttle. Problem there, is the shuttles are not allowed to deliver you to the terminal until all seats are full. Last week when I flew to Chicago, I waited a half hour in the parking lot. No curbside bag check in! Absolutely amazing! Who the hell is the Harvard grad who came up with that stroke of genius. Now we can all go stand in line 30 minutes inside, and for what? So we can answer the same stupid questions we would have been asked at curb side. "Has your bag been out of your sight, or left unattended? Did you pack this bag yourself?" At this point I'm going to break down and admit that some Muslim radical packed my fucking bag? Ask any airline counter person if they have ever received the wrong answer to either of those questions. So far, all that has been accomplished is nothing that would detour or discourage a terrorist or in any way improve anti-terrorist security. All that the above two changes have managed to do is inconvenience the traveler. While at the same time another branch of government is trying to promote air travel. "Redundant" wouldn't you agree? Moving on through the airport, we are now checked for ID and boarding pass. I like that! Getting our hand carry through x-ray, and ourselves through the metal detector is next. "Bravo", I like that. Now the big question comes. Why do we need to do all that before we get on an airplane. It's simple, a terrorist can hijack an airplane and kidnap you,me and several hundred other people, take us to some god forsaken shit-hole like Afghanistan, or worse yet the terrorist could use that plane as a weapon, as we were witness to on Sept. 11th. So, the airplane is a weapon, or a great way to capture hundreds of people and deliver them to the Fatherland, "Afghanistan". Two simple cost effective changes need to be made to the airplane, these changes would render the airplane totally useless to a terrorist. We are all on the same page here, aren't we? We do agree, that if the terrorist can't use it, they won't have any reason to take it in the first place, don't we? No. 1. The airlines are re-enforcing doors right now, which is good, but they also need to move that bulkhead out a few feet so that the forward head becomes part of the cockpit. The passengers need not even see the pilot, co-pilot or the navigator. Who board from the tarmac, and are locked securely in the cabin prior to passenger boarding. The cabin door can be opened by the flight crew, in the event of a crash only. No. 2. Cut off all internal communications to the cockpit. If the terrorist can't talk to the pilot, can't negotiate with the pilot, can't direct the pilot. He can't make use of the airplane. If he can't make use of the airplane, it's senseless to have one. He might as well go hijack a Greyhound bus, at least he can make the driver take him somewhere. How's It Work? Let's say that we've moved the bulkhead, fortified the door and canceled all communication from the cabin to the cockpit. FOX, CNN, MSNBC, all carried the story. Everyone in the world knows, except R.C. O'Hern. R.C. O'Hern has been planning for months, he'll hijack the San Francisco to New York flight No. 000. O'Hern will cause flight no. 000 to divert from it's course and crash into the Empire State Building. As soon as the airplane reaches cruising altitude, O'Hern makes his move. With a sharpened plexi-glass knife at the stewardess's throat he loudly announces, "This is a hijack! Tell the pilot to get out here, NOW!" The business man looking air marshal sitting in seat 3B activates his little remote control. A red light flashes in the cockpit. Within a few seconds the cockpit radio comes to life. "Flight number 000, this is LA international control tower we have you on our radar, turn to heading 350 and begin your descent. You will be landing on emergency runway number 2, all fire and emergency vehicles are rolling, anti terror units have been scrambled." The pilot announces to the passengers that he is landing the airplane at the nearest airport in accordance with anti-terrorist rules. The passengers look out the windows to see they are suddenly being escorted by a pair of F-14's. Had R.C. O'Hern managed to somehow gain control of the cockpit, these F-14's would be blowing flight no. 000 and it's human cargo to smithereens. If O'Hern were to hurt the stewardess in any way our air marshal would have orders, "Shoot to kill". |
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