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  • Re: Flydubai cockpit drama is no open-and-sh

    From Rug Rat@1:135/250 to Vincent Coen on Saturday, October 24, 2026 17:03:44
    Let's not forget Alaskan 2059, where their jumpseater was on mushrooms and decided that the fire handles would be a good thing to pull.

    It certainly is a catch 22, one that in the United States the FAA has doubled down with the mandatory installation of an additional cockpit barrier (Though I did not see them installed on my last series of flights to and from San Diego. So this must only be on newly manufactured aircraft or the ones I was on had not been retrofitted yet.

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  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Rug Rat on Sunday, October 25, 2026 08:46:50
    It certainly is a catch 22, one that in the United States the FAA has doubled down with the mandatory installation of an additional cockpit barrier (Though I did not see them installed on my last series of flights to and from San Diego. So this must only be on newly manufactured
    aircraft or the ones I was on had not been retrofitted yet.

    An individual bent on destroying an airliner and killing him-/herself in the process is difficult to stop because there are that many opportunities other than trying to crash into the cockpit.

    The good thing is that a lot of wannabee-terrorists are plain stupid:

    * The shoebomber Richard Reid (2001) who tried to lit a fuse of a bomb hidden in his shoes, but the fuse was wet because he had sweaty feet and didn't light. 3 consecutive life-sentences plus 110 year and no parole.

    * The underwear bomber Farouk Abdulmutallab (2009) tried to detonate a PETN/TATP mixture in his underwear but he just caused fire. As a result his penis and testicles had to be surgically removed. Life without parole.

    * The Times Square bomber (2010) who filled a car with full propane cannisters and threw in a packet of lit firecrackers on a lengthy fuse expecting this would set-off the cannisters to explode. Nothing happened. He also left receipts in the car that made him the obvious suspect. Life without parole.

    Years ago I wrote an article about stupid terrorists ...

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Ward Dossche on Sunday, October 25, 2026 09:56:21
    Ward Dossche wrote to Rug Rat <=-

    * The underwear bomber Farouk Abdulmutallab (2009) tried to detonate a PETN/TATP mixture in his underwear but he just caused fire. As a result his penis and testicles had to be surgically removed. Life without
    parole.

    You'd think he'd be charged with time served (without genitals) and
    released. :)


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  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Kurt Weiske on Sunday, October 25, 2026 18:18:53
    * The underwear bomber Farouk Abdulmutallab (2009) tried to detonate a KW>WD> PETN/TATP mixture in his underwear but he just caused fire. As a
    result
    his penis and testicles had to be surgically removed. Life without KW>WD> parole.

    You'd think he'd be charged with time served (without genitals) and released. :)

    He's training as an operatic castrato-singer ... very high-pitched voice.

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