alt Hacker NewsNo successful terrorist attacks on planes going to/from western countries after 9/11/2001, that's a pretty good record. Maybe we can't prove that the security theater was responsible for that, but still, the only planes that were bombed after 9/11/2001 were inside Russia or going from Egypt to Russia.
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Last I checked, in the US there has not been a single instance of the TSA detecting and preventing a terror attack in its 25 year history.
And presumably they wouldn’t be shy about telling us if they had.
The main benefit from post 9/11 security is locks on the cockpit doors. And no longer telling passengers to do whatever a hijacker says.
Bombings are pretty rare. The last succesful plane bombing of a plane departing from the united states that killed people was in 1962.
This is somewhat false? There were four other bombings, two in western countries (specifically EU->US flights). None of these two were successful in terms of "the plane was downed", but bombs were carried on a plane and exploded, and security didn't stop that.
22 December 2001, American Airlines Flight 63 7 May 2002, China Northern Flight 6136 25 December 2009, Northwest Airlines Flight 253 2 February 2016, Daallo Airlines Flight 159
Ok so cockpit door was locked and thus nobody can hijack plane.
Of course even that has killed people.
I thonk it has more to do with process and pilot crew closing their door.
This is an asinine take - it literally has nothing to do with the theater we deal with at the airports in America
I have a rock that keeps tigers away. For 30 years I have not encountered any tigers. That’s a pretty good record.