Blackbox - 01 - SkyCrime - Part 1 of 5

The VNE, or Velocity Never Exceed, of that aircraft is 300 knots. The commenter said the plane hit the ground at over 700 mph which is twice the speed that the aircraft was certified to operate at.

Regardless, had the aircraft been equipped with bullet resistant cockpit doors that were secure and defensible like the ones the US has used since 9/12/2001 and the Israelis have used since the 1960s to successfully prevent hijackings, this tragedy and others like it could have been averted.

obviously, a thief is also capable of bringing a gun to work and killing 43 other co-workers. Therefore, if an employee is a thief, he should be sent to the USPS for further employment or the US Army where he can be a Major pain in the ass like Fort Hood's Hasan-of-a-bitch.

Had Burke used a fake ID he still would have made it through.

However, had the US used secure and defensible airline cockpit doors like the Israelis used since the late 1960s, not only would the PSA Flt 1771 tragedy been averted, so would the attempted hijacking of FEDEX Flt 705 and the four 9/11 hijackings and most likely the Dawson's Field hijackings of the 1970s.

yeah they are exactly the same guns, just different chamberings.

I have an Uzi submachine gun that shoots both 9MM and .45ACP, yet, it's the same gun. Imagine that, eh?

No, flight 93 was caused by terroists who wanted 69 virgins, PSA Flight 1771 was caused by a man who stole 69 smackers from work and got fired over it.

My dad was on this plane. I think it's sick that this show exists and people are making money off it.

Today is the 22nd anniversary.

Sorry that your dad was on this one, but they do also use these for training in aviation accident classes. I have to do my final paper in Airport Security on this particular accident.

Just think of the money YOU would have made, had the loss of your father caused you to have an idea regarding cockpit security, leading to the design and manufacturing and USE of secure and defensible airline cockpit doors which would have prevented the 9/11 attacks?

You'd be a state hero!

OMG!!!! Hard to comprehend that someone would take a plane and kill 43 people because he was so bitter about being fired for $69. This horrific disaster is really very disturbing..........

A note........."Isn't it IRONICAL we end up this way?" Unfortunate the airlines hadn't recognized this guy and put him on a "do not fly" with that airlines... his case was in the middle of an appeal...... hindsight and 43 lives gone. RIP