Second Act Kamikazes
June, 2002
The next time will be different. The biggest fear in the airline industry and in law enforcement isn't the large airliner being used as a missile. What keeps everyone up at night is a scenario in which a number of pilots load explosives or bioweapons on small private planes and crash the planes into radio transmitters, water plants, power plants, nuclear reactors, stadiums or shopping malls. There are 5300 public-use airports in the U.S. and about 19,000 landing areas. And they are nearly imposs...