Small Planes and Lone Terrorist Nutcases
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A Washington Post article concludes that small planes are not the next terror threat: Pilots of private planes fly about 200,000 small and medium-size aircraft in the United States, using 19,000 airports, most of them small. The planes’ owners say the aircraft have little in common with airliners. “I don’t see a gaping security hole here,” said Tom Walsh, an…
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