How can the airlines and government protect against hijacking without identification checks?
What happens in the air is most important to protecting against hijacking. Building strong cockpit doors that will resist the entry of hijackers is clearly useful, and is being done. Teaching law-abiding citizens how to defend themselves is another useful measure. Though gun-control advocates have problems with permitting honest citizens to be armed, all of us can agree that courageous passengers and crews can prevent hijackings, even when unarmed. Even early on the morning of 9/11, once the passengers in the fourth plane figured out that they were aboard a flying bomb, they knew what they had to do, and they did it. I doubt that future efforts to seize a plane and fly it into a particular place would succeed, now that all the honest passengers know that the safest thing they can do is to risk their lives to stop a hijacking in progress. In that sense, the government’s previous teachings about hijacking (to maximize their survival, passengers should comply quietly) was the biggest sing
