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Airline safety

Airline Safety

September 11, 2001 is a day that will not be soon forgotten. The effects of this tragedy reach every aspect of our lives, from the economy, to foreign policy, to travel, and especially airline safety. Anyone who has traveled can tell one the extent of new security taken place at airports. Besides checking traveler’s belongings there are other proposed precautions, such as using biometrics to identify passengers, placing sky marshals on nearly every flight, creating stronger cockpit doors, arming pilots, allowing off duty police officer to carry weapons on-board, increasing security presence at airports, and giving people other than President Bush the authority to have commercial airlines shot down. There are too many ideas to even list. Improving security both on and off the plane can help prevent another terrorist attack, but in my opinion certain measures are begin taken too far.
The government has proposed the use of biometrics, which has already been...

Posted by: Sean Wilson

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