At 09:32 PM 10/31/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 05:09 PM, Steve Schear wrote:
Unfortunately, there are many gasses which kill or disable with only a small dosage (e.g., VX). Unless the cabins are equipped with toxic air sensors (possible in a few years with all the biochip work underway) I think the masks may be be too little too late.
I'm missing the gist of this scenario.
If the attackers/hijackers cannot get into the cockpit and gain control of the plane, then the most they can do with disabling/lethal/nerve gases is to cause the plane to essentially crash randomly...which kills a few hundred people, but probably not many more.
This may be more than sufficient to place a final nail in the airline industry coffin. Killing NY sheeple in high rise buildings isn't the only way to hurt us. steve
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Steve Schear wrote:
This may be more than sufficient to place a final nail in the airline industry coffin. Killing NY sheeple in high rise buildings isn't the
Doesn't have to be overnight. It would be already enough to arm the pilots and issue an SOP to lock the doors before the plane starts rolling, and keep them locked until the plane stops. But this means depriving the pilots of stewardess company in flight, and installing toilets in the cockpits, so it's a hard one.
only way to hurt us.
Well, the next one is synchronous-release nerve gas in the subway rush hour, a big stadium, or a nuke in Manhattan. Kinda difficult to achieve enough scale otherwise using biological agents. You need a lot of weapon-grade stuff, or get lucky to achieve sustainable burn within a high-density high-interaction area, which restricts you to very exotic agents. Doesn't appear very likely.
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