Quote Originally Posted by inthebutt View Post
actually the CIA couldn't have stop them but the actual pilot could have stopped them. I don't know if anyone remembers but there was a couple pilots pushing for some sort of distress/kill switch on airliners to be used in the event of a high jacking. the kill switch would shut down all electric equipment and only allowed the airplane to basically glide at that point.

if you google it you might still find the articles about it, but I'm saying if the pilots had that, they could have prevented it or at least kept the planes from being used as a weapon.

but that's just my input on your question to kavinsky christmas!!!
Possibly, but the problem is that everything we are talking about now is in hindsight.

9/11 was the first time in the history of air travel that a commercial airliner has been used as a missile. No one could have predicted this and unfortunately many steps to prevent such an event (such as profiling or stricter security) from happening would be considered either infringement on people's freedoms or too much money to actually run.

It is a tragedy, but the fact is that 19 men run by a terrorist organization took arguably the most powerful country by surprise and changed it forever. The US has no one to blame but the organization behind it.