[41845] in Cypherpunks
Re: airport security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Duncan Frissell)
Fri Oct 20 01:15:43 1995
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 14:13:17 -0400
To: "Bob Bruen, MIT Lab for Nuclear Science" <BRUEN@mitlns.mit.edu>
From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 07:16 AM 10/19/95 -0400, Bob Bruen, MIT Lab for Nuclear Science wrote:
> Without actually agreeing with the FAA, the reason you can't have a name
> other than your own on your ticket, as well as why you are required to
> be in your assigned seat on take-off and landing is because if there is
> a plane crash, they need to be able to identify an otherwise difficult
> to identify body. This does have some relevance to airport security if
> a plane is blown up.
So, since planes were much more likely to crash in 1957 then they are now,
I suppose that you *really* must have had to prove your identity to get on a
plane in those days.
DCF
"Who wonders who's going to blow away the Gremlins eating the engines of
*today's* planes since the passengers have been disarmed." Too much Outer
Limits/Twilight Zone/Science Fiction Theater as a kid.
