Last week’s emergency evacuation of federal government buildings in Washington following a violation of restricted airspace around the Capitol was an example of a well-designed system working.
What conclusions should the ground controllers reach if they cannot make radio contact, visual emergency signals being used directly in front of the approaching aircraft are being ignored, and the aircraft is already over a densely populated area?
Experts agree that airliners may be harder to take over now, so the next terrorist attack may come from a smaller aircraft from an unsecured airfield that terrorists have stolen.
We may have to face the reality that terrorists may succeed in ramming their captured aircraft into federal buildings, but their hopes of inflicting mass casualties will hopefully be dashed because their intended targets will have scattered for cover IF the system is used as designed.
A working government must be maintained, regardless of the condition of the capitol itself. And if that means that government employees are ordered to run for their lives when Washington airspace is violated, SO BE IT.
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