The short blade on a box cutter is still plenty long enough, strong enough, and sharp enough to slit your throat and kill you.
Brandishing the box cutters, the terrorists took control of the planes and demanded to be let into the cockpit.
There they killed or disabled the pilots and took control of the plane.
Remember, prior to 9/11, the procedure for terrorists was to stay calm and do what they say. In previous terrorist hijackings, the terrorists only wanted to redirect the plane to a new destination, so they could escape, or take the plane hostage to bargain for the release of fellow terrorists who had been captured.
No one had ever hijacked a plane with the goal of crashing it into a building before.
And now, no one ever will again. Say some bozo tries to hijack a plane. Well, the cockpit is made of steel, locked and neither the pilots nor the stewardesses are about to open the door.
In addition, every passenger on the plane is no longer going to quietly stand by. There had better be an air marshal on board otherwise all that be left of the terrorist is a sticky read stain.
Reports came from Flight 93 that the hijackers had them. To answer the other question. I work in a factory and use box cutters everyday, It doesn't make sense that box cutters are banned, like you said most come out 1/4-1/2 inch. Though some come out a lot longer (cheap ones) but they would be flimsy making it useless anyway. I see no point in allowing knives onto planes again, but lets just hope people are dumb enough to start S*** on a airplane.
Several of the alleged hijackers had purchased box cutters and the reciepts were discovered when their appartments were raided after the attack. It is presumed at least some (but by no means all) of the hijackers used them to take over the planes along with pepper spray, normal short-bladed knives, etc,...
Be advised that the whole thing is a FRAUD
the "news" media LIES!
there were NO airliners hijacked that day!
WE THE PEOPLE have been lied to!
WAKE UP AMERICA
its later than U think!
Please read my question ..... & Thanks
While proposing that knives with two-inch-plus blades be allowed on planes, the government forbids box cutters, referring to their use in the 9/11 hijackings.
1. How do we know they were used then - were they recovered at the crash sites?
2. By design, to avoid damaging contents, a box cutter's blade only extends a small distance, much less than the pocket knives that will now be allowed. What's the logic behind this? Granted, the single-edge razor blade can be taken out of the box cutter, but that still is approximately only potentially as damaging as penknife blade.
