Pros And Cons Of Flight Screening

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On September 11, 2001 the United states was attacked and severely damaged both mentally and physically. In the past sixteen years there has been many theories that have aroused suspicion in our legal system and has questioned the honesty of our politicians. The story that media and politicians have portrayed is that multiple members of Al Qaeda hijacked planes in Maine. After they hijacked and overtook these planes, they flew them into the World Trade Center's (WTC) Twin Towers in New York City. There was also a plane that had flown into the pentagon, but unlike the planes at the WTC there was no video proof. Flight 93 the most popular of the several overran flights was taken over by the passengers and ran into the ground outside of Pittsburgh …show more content…

While going through the regular pre-flight screening, the men set off several alarms from a couple different screenings, but were still waved through and were allowed to board the flights. Not one man was stopped and prohibited from entering any of the planes. American flight 11 was a flight leaving Boston and entering Los Angeles. The pilots of the Boeing 767 were Captain John Ogonowski and First Officer Thomas McGuiness. The flight took off at 8:00 and the hijacking began at 8:14. The terrorists whose names are not important (because why make stupid people famous) were seated in row two first class and stabbed two flight attendants, both unnamed. The third terrorist (we will say his name because it's kind of important) “Atta” was the only of the four terrorists on board who knew how to fly a plane. The terrorist then sprayed pepper spray to force the passenger and the flight attendants toward the rear of the plane. Once at the back of the plane, they used and “airphone,” but the location of the airphones for the flight attendants use are typically at the front of the aircraft making it inconvenient for a sudden hijacking. The only passenger on board to die before the planes crashed was an ex Israeli Military