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Why have a no fly list? If it was for unruly people that went through the court process that would be one thing (still would be unfair but less so than what we have).
9/11. 80s plane hijackings. Numerous plane bombings.
It's not just unruly passengers.
By the 90s, hijackings were already way down, and deaths due to hijjackings were rare. 9/11 shows up as a big blip on the death scale, but other than that, it was already running up against zero.
https://ourworldindata.org/airline-hijackings-were-once-common-but-are-very-rare-today
And those are worldwide numbers, not just the US.
He asked why and I gave 3 reasons. I didn't say they were good reasons, or that I agree.
Leading up to 9/11 hijackings were mostly for ransom anyway. But just because hijackings were decreasing doesn't mean that wasn't a reason they were implemented.
Its hard for me to conceive of a hijacking today with some of the changes that have happened in the airline industry. But that could be a reason that a no fly list might continue to exist.
And the TSA was put in place for that... No?
And we passed the patriot act.
Those incidents lead to more than one attempt at a solution.