Voice of New Americans

More than one year has passed since the events of September 11, and it seems that few now really care about this tragic incident. Politicians on Capitol Hill are proud that they have budgeted almost $40 billion for anti-terrorist programs, established the Transportation Safety Administration, Department of Homeland Security, etc. What they "forgot" is an anti-hijacking system for airplanes.

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Immigrants propose anti-hijacking system

The terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. demonstrated the extreme vulnerability of our air traffic system. About 3,000 people were killed.

The hijackers did not violate any security procedures. As far as it is known, they did not have weapons other than box cutters and knives. Prior to September 11, FAA regulations allowed knives with blades up to four inches to be carried on board airplanes.

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President Carter about air-traffic security and relationship with communist China and capitalist Russia

Interview during Carter's visit at Stanford University

Question: According to the events after September 11 and your engineering background, at Stanford, there has been a program brought up that would involve remotely disabling access to the controls of an airplane from the cockpit and you would be able to land the plane from the ground. Would are you opinions about such a system?

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