The Safety of Weapon Free Zones

[Bean Counter]

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/plane-crash-san-francisco-asiana/2013/07/07/id/513635

SAN FRANCISCO -- After nearly 11 hours in the air, the passengers and crew aboard a jumbo jetliner traveling from Seoul to San Francisco were looking forward to a quick and uneventful landing as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 approached the airport from over San Francisco Bay. What they got instead, without a word of warning, was terror, panic and confusion.

The Boeing 777 slammed into the runway on Saturday morning, breaking off its tail and catching fire before slumping to a stop that allowed the lucky ones to flee down emergency slides into thick smoke and a trail of debris. Firefighters doused the flames that burned through the fuselage with foam and water, and police officers on the ground threw utility knives up to crew members so they could cut the seat belts of those who remained trapped as rescue crews removed the injured.

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[Bob33]

It is a very tragic story. I'm not certain that allowing passengers to carry knives on the plane would have made a significant difference, however.

[Bean Counter]

all the same, I'd hate to be burning in a chair because box cutters are a sensitive topic. 

[WSU]

all the same, I'd hate to be burning in a chair because box cutters are a sensitive topic. 

I'd also hate to have my plane fly into the twin towers because they were not.

[pianoman9701]

Two of the emergency slides deployed inward, trapping flight attendants and passengers against the wall unable to move. The used a fire axe to deflate it because they didn't have anything else sharp to do the job.