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Originally Posted by x808drifter
2 weeks ago some guy from Venezuela drove his car through the Hilo airport fence and tried to steal a Beechcraft. He got the engines going before being arrested.
Honolulu some kid drove onto the airfield and stole a Cessna and promptly crashed after takeoff.
It gets kind of scary when you realize how easy it is.
Hickam AFB is connected to Honolulu International.
Wouldn't take much to steal a plane and F up a few VERY expensive military aircraft.
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So true.
It would be super easy for someone to make a bomb from fertilizer and blow up a crowded area like Oklahoma City. People just aren't that messed up, and terrorists of any type don't seem to want to waist their time on just killing randomly in order to have a huge death toll for the hell of it. If someone wanted to add ricin to mail and hand deliver it like people do when they leave stuff on your door or on your car as advertisements, a person could kill thousands of people. It wouldn't even be that expensive. So many public events from marathons to sporting events, etc have little to no security, and it wouldn't take much to bring an automatic weapon close enough in range to mow down a huge group of people. Add multiple gunmen, and the death toll could be in the hundreds. Multiple SUVs breaking through the "barriers" at a marathon or at a parade at highway speeds would do massive damage to lives, but this doesn't really happen, especially in a coordinated way from multiple attackers.
We have all these things from domestic terrorists on a much smaller scale, but nothing like 9/11 in size, even though we are no more shielded from these events than we were before. People say a plane couldn't be highjacked now, but all the terrorists had then was box cutters. Ask anyone in prison if a shank couldn't be made in short time from anything. I wonder what the plane would do if multiple terrorists took hostages and demanded the crew to open the cockpit. They say the cockpit is locked, and they have a gun now, but if a shank was held up to a baby or other hostage throat, I don't know what the pilot would do. Even still, the pilot could be in on it, whether the person was radicalized or paid off in some way.