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It’s hard to imagine the common case would involve fatalities greater than double the occupancy. As an urban citizen, you’re still a bajillion times more likely to die in a car accident than due to an exploding plane…

When is the last time someone hijacked a plane and demanded a ransom for the passengers?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_8969

and many other times.

You realize that is from 1994, right? I looked at wikipedia's list of hijackings and did not see any in the last 10 years.

Yeah, but hijacking is not some movie fantasy. It happens.

They were all thwarted... but the water and cargo bombs were thwarted by intelligence work, not by security screening, and the underwear guy really should have been.