Supposedly, on one of the planes, the terrorists lured the pilot from the cockpit by killing flight attendants one by one, causing the pilot to come into the cabin to see what was happening. Very little can be done about this, I would suppose.


I trim my beard nightly and travel with a scissors. My carry-on bag is inspected about 1/3 of the time, they see the scissors and that's that. I don't know how we can make hijackings 100% preventable. Perhaps we need to think about not allowing any carry ons. I believe I heard that there hadn't been a hijacking in the U.S. since 1991 before yesterday.


It does seem there needs to be stricter rules about cockpit access. Whatever happened vis-a-vis the Egyptian pilot who apparently crashed his plane on purpose? Weren't they going to make a rule that there had to be two people in the cockpit at all times? It seems after an incident that there's a lot of talk but very little substantive action.