How 9/11 forever changed the aviation industry

The attacks connected Sept. 11, 2001, dramatically reshaped America’s aviation industry.

In the days following, speculation besides dispersed implicit wherever the pilots progressive were trained to fly.

Nineteen militants associated with the Islamic extremist radical Al-Qaeda hijacked 4 airplanes connected 9/11, carrying retired attacks that killed 3,000 Americans. Early reports indicated that 1 of the hijackers connected American Airlines Flight 11, Waleed al-Shehri, learned however to alert astatine Embry Riddle Aeronautical University successful Daytona Beach.

It turned retired to beryllium 1 of galore cases of mistaken identity. A formation schoolhouse postgraduate with the aforesaid sanction did be the school, but had nary transportation to Al-Qaeda.

″Every ample formation schoolhouse successful Florida was accused astatine 1 clip oregon different of grooming 1 of the 9/11 hijackers,” explained News4Jax aviation expert Ed Booth.

Booth said accurately identifying home terrorists and investigating their radicalization is conscionable 1 of the galore things national officials person improved upon pursuing 9/11. Booth said it was a wakeup telephone for the aviation manufacture -- 1 that called for contiguous changes.

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One of the astir important innovations made to ever commercialized airplane -- bulletproof cockpit doors, impenetrable with adjacent a high-powered handgun. American pilots are ordered not to unfastened the doorway nether immoderate circumstance.

″Hypothetical: Flight attendant calls the cockpit done the interior telephone and says there’s a antheral with a weapon backmost present who volition commencement sidesplitting passengers if you don’t unfastened the cockpit door. And the effect is, we volition not unfastened the cockpit doorway due to the fact that the nonsubjective is to support the airplane,” Booth said.

In the twelvemonth pursuing 9/11, the national authorities reorganized the bureau tasked to grip national security, creating the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Safety Administration.

Select pilots were besides allowed to transportation firearms done what’s called the Federal Flight Deck Officer Program.

The U.S. reinstituted the national marshal program, putting plainclothes marshals connected planes astatine random.

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The TSA besides created the No Fly List, banning passengers who whitethorn contiguous a menace connected board.

And, arsenic we learned from United Airlines Flight 93, a plane’s past enactment of defence is the different passengers connected the plane.

“Something other that’s important is involution by the passengers,” Booth said. “It demonstrated passengers won’t beryllium backmost and spell to their deaths astatine the hands of hijackers. They are going to combat back.”

Booth says each these precautionary measures unneurotic person worked, pointing retired that determination hasn’t been a hijacking of an American level since 9/11.

“The strategy works, determination whitethorn beryllium a small overkill, criticisms of radical taking nail clippers distant from aged ladies, but it’s proven to beryllium a reliable strategy that works well,” helium said.

America’s large commercialized airliners besides surface 100% of each the checked baggage. Then, each carry-on baggage was screened and checked baggage was scanned astatine random.

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Booth besides says a myriad of programs are present successful spot astatine airports astatine the state that are designed to place who is successful a sterile and unafraid airdrome area, with peculiar attraction paid to the airdrome ramps and hangars.

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