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Safety in the skies

About five weeks on from the time I wrote this blogpost about Annie Jacobsen and Northwest Airlines flight #327 I decided to revisit WomensWallStreet.com to see if there was yet another update to the story.

There is in fact two more parts.

Russian Airliners Were Likely Exploded From Their Toilets

Thankfully we have moved on from the hysteria and we now get a good analysis of the Chechen terrorists most likely responsible for blowing up two Russian airliners and their links to Islamic terrorist groups.

Gentlemen, Why Can’t We Get it Right?

In the latest article she tackles the role of the Air Marshals and the efficacy of their work to make aircraft safer.

Federal Air Marshals have become an integral weapon in America’s war on terror. Until recently, the highly secretive, pistol-packing sky-marshals were portrayed as America’s silent heroes: “unseen, unheard, unafraid.” But a spate of recent articles about the beleaguered Federal Air Marshals Service (FAMS) have many Americans rethinking the reality behind the agency façade. It seems that a more appropriate motto for the FAMS might be “easily identifiable, not allowed to speak up, and concerned about their safety.”

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