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Author of The Skies Belong to Us and Now the Hell Will Start. Contributing editor @Wired. A fair is a veritable smorgasbord. brendankoerner@protonmail.com

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    Brendan I. Koerner‏Verified account @brendankoerner 3 Oct 2017

    When I wrote "The Skies Belong to Us," a book about the hijacking epidemic of the '60s/'70s, mass shootings were very much on my mind. (1/x)

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      2. Brendan I. Koerner‏Verified account @brendankoerner 3 Oct 2017

        After the first four American hijackings occurred in 1961, the Senate held a hearing about the crisis. FAA chief Najeeb Halaby testified.

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      3. Brendan I. Koerner‏Verified account @brendankoerner 3 Oct 2017

        A senator asked Halaby whether it might make sense to check passengers for weapons. There was ZERO airport security at that point.

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      4. Brendan I. Koerner‏Verified account @brendankoerner 3 Oct 2017

        So the matter was dropped and airports stayed security-free. And, of course, the hijackings increased, both in number and intensity.pic.twitter.com/TqjgyZ2ARs

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      5. Brendan I. Koerner‏Verified account @brendankoerner 3 Oct 2017

        In July 1968, after over a dozen hijackings to Cuba had occurred in rapid succession, yet another Senate hearing took place.

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      6. Brendan I. Koerner‏Verified account @brendankoerner 3 Oct 2017

        Once again, the FAA shrugged. Hijacking was an unsolvable problem, a top official declared.pic.twitter.com/cwtWWjqG0E

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      7. Brendan I. Koerner‏Verified account @brendankoerner 3 Oct 2017

        A senator from Florida objected, noting that new X-ray machines and metal detectors could provide a solution. He didn't want to shrug.pic.twitter.com/3UxBW5AdjP

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      8. Brendan I. Koerner‏Verified account @brendankoerner 3 Oct 2017

        The proposal freaked out the airlines, who cared about profit above all else. Enduring hijackings was much cheaper than installing security.pic.twitter.com/KJxVx3wXaM

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      9. Brendan I. Koerner‏Verified account @brendankoerner 3 Oct 2017

        Airlines were the tech giants of their day and had huge political muscle. The FAA was putty in their hands. Once again, the agency shrugged.pic.twitter.com/Z1NITEXWYX

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      10. Brendan I. Koerner‏Verified account @brendankoerner 3 Oct 2017

        What changed in the end? The airlines began to fear legal liability after the November 1972 hijacking of Southern Airways Flight 49.

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      11. Brendan I. Koerner‏Verified account @brendankoerner 3 Oct 2017

        Those hijackers threatened to crash the plane into a nuclear reactor in Tennessee unless they got $10 million. http://skyjackeroftheday.tumblr.com/post/53402639756/3-louis-moore …

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      12. Brendan I. Koerner‏Verified account @brendankoerner 3 Oct 2017

        The airlines realized their old cost-benefit analysis no longer worked: They couldn’t still treat hijacking as a mere managed risk.

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      13. Brendan I. Koerner‏Verified account @brendankoerner 3 Oct 2017

        Universal passenger screening started on January 5, 1973. American hijackings immediately plummeted to negligible levels.pic.twitter.com/c1lC6ZiVYm

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      14. Brendan I. Koerner‏Verified account @brendankoerner 3 Oct 2017

        Something to think about the next time folks shrug over mass shootings and claim that all policy solutions are doomed to failure.

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      15. Brendan I. Koerner‏Verified account @brendankoerner 3 Oct 2017

        (Worth noting, however, that gun manufacturers don't have the same liability fears as early '70s airlines.)http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/06/446348616/fact-check-are-gun-makers-totally-free-of-liability-for-their-behavior …

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      16. Brendan I. Koerner‏Verified account @brendankoerner 3 Oct 2017

        Thank you for reading.

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