tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35971466.post513721384966919848..comments2024-02-26T23:31:07.357-07:00Comments on Joe Sharkey.com: 737 Hijacked in Jamaica by 'Mentally Challenged' GunmanJoesharkey.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14113631846708664463noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35971466.post-31782421741739791192009-04-23T20:21:00.000-07:002009-04-23T20:21:00.000-07:00Joe,
From what I can parse, this "anonymous" guy'...Joe,<br /><br />From what I can parse, this "anonymous" guy's post has the ring of authenticity. Too bad it smacks of an air marshal aboard your flight.<br /><br />Yep, true, the plane never got off the ground, but f**k, they had to switch pilots with agents, THROUGH THE BLOODY COCKPIT WINDOWS. Uh, Hell, loooh!!!<br /><br />Let him not be allowed to be anywhere near there in the first place. THAT'S why we're screening grannies in wheelchairs and running wands up 8-year-old kids' armpits.<br /><br />THAT maniac is what we should be looking out for, not an "All-race, all-age-inclusive" policy of discrimination.<br /><br />Hence, ONE dude at every gate, disguised or not, armed to the teeth, to prevent just this kind of thing from occurring. Don't ask questions, just kill the guy, then pick up the pieces. Umm, kind of like they did with the pirates in Somalia.<br /><br />It matters very little whether the guy had actually made it into the air (an extremely disturbing thought) but what should have prevented him from getting anywhere NEAR a plane with a weapon should be uppermost in anyone's mind.<br /><br />Hey, if this tactic is this effective, maybe I'll employ it to get to my seat a little faster. Show Gun, Will Travel.<br /><br />Anyway, I ain't goin' nowhere near Jamaica in the foreseeable future.<br /><br />Just add it to the list.ChefNickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506706291656673082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35971466.post-19614310268619247202009-04-20T18:28:00.000-07:002009-04-20T18:28:00.000-07:00It's my Blogger ID. You don't like it, not my prob...It's my Blogger ID. You don't like it, not my problem, but you should go complaining to Google that they allow people to choose anything they want for their IDs instead of making people show photo ID when registering for an account.<br /><br />Poor airport security anywhere is a local matter until such time as someone manages to get on an *airborne* aircraft and do some damage. That didn't happen here because the folks on the airplane did exactly what they were supposed to do. Yes, it's a high-profile lapse in local security, but it's one that could easily happen in the US, too.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13275490573777338522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35971466.post-32568710589871498922009-04-20T17:05:00.000-07:002009-04-20T17:05:00.000-07:00From an international security perspective, an arm...From an international security perspective, an armed lunatic sailed through Jamaican airport security and took over a plane. I don't fault the crew. I do fault Jamaican security. Rather than high-fiving each other, they ought to be looking closely at the obvious problems with security at that airport. And by the way, that is the last of the anonymous comments. If you don't have the guts to sign a name, don't bother writing.Joesharkey.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113631846708664463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35971466.post-48085549715836651372009-04-20T10:25:00.000-07:002009-04-20T10:25:00.000-07:00OK, let's be honest here. From an international se...OK, let's be honest here. From an international security perspective, this is nowhere near as big of a deal as you seem to want it to be.<br /><br />First, the airplane never took off. The airplane never even left the gate, as far as I can tell from the various news reports. Unless the airplane gets in the air, it's not much of a threat to anything outside the airport perimeter fence.<br /><br />Second, the crew did pretty much exactly what you'd expect them to do. The cockpit door isn't supposed to be secured while the plane is parked at the gate and there are pilots in the cockpit. Presumably, this guy wasn't a pilot and couldn't have done anything with the airplane even if he had managed to get the crew off the plane (which it *also* doesn't seem he was trying to do). If a plane is on the ground and is somehow taken over by hijackers, the crew's first priority is to ensure the craft doesn't leave the ground. They succeeded. Mission accomplished, as it were. Leave the crew out of this.<br /><br />If you want to stop this sort of thing from happening again, station armed law enforcement officers with shoot-to-kill authority just inside the security checkpoint and just inside the exit. Security exits are HORRIBLY insecure; they're probably the weakest point in public-facing airport security. There's usually just one (unarmed, often seriously out of shape) TSA agent sitting there at a podium doing a Sudoku and occasionally making sure no one is trying to enter through the exit hallway. If a crazy guy with a gun wanted to enter the sterile area that way, he'd just have to be fast enough to outrun the agent and confuse the first four or five people who saw him inside of security. (And let's face it, people running like madmen through a concourse is not exactly a cause for alarm, especially at big hub airports.)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13275490573777338522noreply@blogger.com