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**Vcwdldva** · 03-04-2010, 10:21 PM

How is it so different? Both high security facilities, limited access, agency regulated, potential for danger.

The difference is the action you described. Like I said, we are in agreeance about the venue, just not on the action itself.

The major infraction was permission to enter in the first place. THAT was what could cause problems if someone did something OTHER than give a plane the OK to take off under the watchful eye of another.

What the kid did in the control tower is the controller's job. Turning on the lights in the lunchroom of a nuclear plant isn't the job. Splitting hairs. What if the kid at the nuke plant simply came in and watched for an alarm to go off? What if he mopped the floor? Isn't that someone's job in there?

Saying riding in a squadcar is the same as pointing a gun at a suspect is not equitable. Not all jobs in any of the three situations listed are equally risky.

The question was what problem you have with the FAA statement. The statement they issued on TV sounded like they caught a terrorist, not that they caught Daddy allowing his son to see what he did for a living and toot the siren on the fire engine.

03-04-2010, 10:21 PM	#36
Vcwdldva Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 430 Senior Member	How is it so different? Both high security facilities, limited access, agency regulated, potential for danger. The difference is the action you described. Like I said, we are in agreeance about the venue, just not on the action itself. The major infraction was permission to enter in the first place. THAT was what could cause problems if someone did something OTHER than give a plane the OK to take off under the watchful eye of another. What the kid did in the control tower is the controller's job. Turning on the lights in the lunchroom of a nuclear plant isn't the job. Splitting hairs. What if the kid at the nuke plant simply came in and watched for an alarm to go off? What if he mopped the floor? Isn't that someone's job in there? Saying riding in a squadcar is the same as pointing a gun at a suspect is not equitable. Not all jobs in any of the three situations listed are equally risky. The question was what problem you have with the FAA statement. The statement they issued on TV sounded like they caught a terrorist, not that they caught Daddy allowing his son to see what he did for a living and toot the siren on the fire engine.
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