Plane scary.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief article

How secure is air travel today? Audrey Hudson of The Washington Times provides a couple of revealing statistics. One is that there are fewer than 2,500 air marshals, and there are only 6,000 pilots who have been trained to carry guns. But there are 25,000 to 30,000 flights a day. This means that there are anywhere from 16,500 to 21,500 flights a day that are not protected in the air. If a terrorist takes over the plane, the only option will be for a military jet to shoot it down.

How secure are those new cockpit doors that are supposed to keep terrorists from taking over the plane? "In one instance," reports Hudson, "a passenger watched a crew...