re: #57 Killgore Trout

Bullshit. Some binary explosive (mixed in flight to avoid electronic sniffers and dogs) mixed with ceramic shrapnel (which will pass metal detectors) will easily disable a cockpit and its crew. Like I said, they just don’t make up these rules to be douchebags. There’s a reason for this stuff.

But if the goal is to breach the cockpit why do you care about the last hour only? A flight coming from Europe and landing in Detroit would have been over North America for the last two hours… Picking the last hour is arbitrary and, looking at the history of hijacking, has no relationship to real areas of risk. The vast preponderance of terrorist actions on planes happen early in the flight. Frankly, this is just about the only time I’ve heard of an attack being tried near the end of a flight.