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Hartmut wrote: > All I am for is that the government learns to trust the people in which name > they govern, because the people do trust them. > A mistrust on one side can only result in a mistrust on the other. > > But I don't understand how the TFR was helpful in that regard. > ATC was monitoring the airspace and should have had a contact with > the plane in question. > Evacuating the place shows that they failed. Hartmut, We didn't have TSRs until FOREIGN crazies hijacked aircraft and tried to kill 50,000 people in a single day. The fact that they killed fewer than 3,000 is a testimony to the attacker's incompetence and the heroism of the rescuers and the people involved. We can't count on similar incompetence of the terrorists in the future. They may succeed in doing what they WANT to do next time. The physics is simple - a jet plane can transit the TSR in 3-6 minutes. Unless they make the TSR a lot bigger and more oppressive AND have several continuously orbiting fighter planes at all times, there's no guarantee of an interception, attempt at redirection and shootdown. An evacuation is a reasonable response. An interesting development in today's news: the 9-11 hijackers turned off the transponders. Over the last 20 years, I think the FAA's and military's ability to skin-paint and track no-transponder domestic aircraft has greatly diminished. On 9-11, the FAA had great difficulty in finding and tracking the planes. Ed Burkhead http://edburkhead.com/ ed -at- edburkheadQQQ.com (change -at- and remove the QQQ) ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
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