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If said plane is the only unscreened flight out of Tel-Aviv? Maybe I'd have some reservations.

But if all flights were completely unscreened? It wouldn't change what or when I fly.

I already board unscreened trains and busses quite often.



When trains or buses crash, the majority of the passengers survive in most cases.

When commercial airliners crash, usually everyone on board dies.


High speed trains in Japan have no screening at all. I imagine a well-placed bomb going off could have a similar number of casualties.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Madrid_train_bombings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela_derailm...

It could almost certainly be extremely deadly if it happens. Man, these were the two main ones I recall - Spain has had some bad luck.


Busses and trains aren’t good targets for terrorism.

You blow up a bus, maybe no one really cares except the locals to the area where the bus blew up.

A plane cuts through many different social classes and nationalities, putting them all in one place and making a large amount of people imagine themselves as the potential victim.


With that username, I’m not sure I’d want to join you :P


Always bring a bomb with you on the plane - the chance there are two bombs on the plane is almost infinitely small!




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