How many newly designed airliners could 87 Bil buy?

We could have prevented completely any more airplane vs building attacks if we had just spent the 87 billion on newly designed aircraft that completely seperates the Pilots and the passengers. No Iraq war needed.

This would have forever stoped Airliners being used as weapons. Yes terrorists could still harm passengers but never be able to take over an aircraft.

Instead now we must spend 500 Billion rebuilding Iraq and removing all those WMD over there. LOL

On the subject of designing airliners to stop terrorists from gaining access to the cockpit, no one would have ever anticipated that terrorists would use airliners as weapons.

Before 9/11, if an engineer had even brought up the notion of designing an airliner with these specifications, they would have been ridiculed and probably lost his job as a credible engineer. Now it's not a laughing matter.

It's a shame that a tragedy has to happen for people to wake up and realize that maybe something could have been done. Hindsight is no good when catastrophic events take place. We can only take foresight at it's face value and apply them for prevention of tragedies if any should take place. The seat belts in your automobile. You may never be in an auto accident yet they're still there. Are they worthless? Everything must be taken into consideration in these days when nothing seems to be far-fetched.

9/10/2001: Do you think that someone could hi-jack an ailiner and fly it into a building, killing everyone on board and unaware people in the building? No way. That could never happen in a million years and only someone paranoid and delusional would even think that.

9/11/2001: Why didn't someone try to stop this from happening?



[edit on 25/9/04 by Intelearthling]

Originally posted by Intelearthling
... no one would have ever anticipated that terrorists would use airliners as weapons. ... Do you think that someone could hi-jack an ailiner and fly it into a building, killing everyone on board and unaware people in the building?

I worked in the Security department of a major airline when LAX was being built, not only are the biggest threat holes still in place at that airport, but the idea of using an aircraft as a bomb was discussed back then.

Nowadays they talk about redesigning LAX.