On Monday, 16 July 2018 4:45:46 PM AEST Rick Moen via luv-talk wrote:
Quoting Trent W. Buck (trentbuck@gmail.com):
Are (light) aircraft often left in unlocked hangars "with fuel in the tank and keys in the ignition"?
ISTR Bruce Schneier saying something along those lines, way back when.
What I don't know about general aviation would fill libraries, sorry. (After my father's demise, I carefully avoided having much to do with small aircraft, to make my mother worry less.)
My guess is that security for small planes tends, indeed, to be pretty lax. But they're also pretty slow and have little momentum or fuel capacity, so their potential as weapons is a great deal less.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Austin_suicide_attack I only know of one such terrorist attack, and that killed one person other than the terrorist and injured 13 others. It caused a significant amount of property damage, but driving a 4WD through a pedestrian area could kill more. Of course if he had flown his plane into a crowd (superbowl or something) there would have been many more deaths and injuries from the crash and more from the stampede. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/