When an airline hires a poilot how do they know he/she is not a terrorist?

Question

like i know they do a criminal check any everything but what if he got a face transplant and changed his name and everything?

i have to travel on a plane and all i can think about is the planes on 9/11 crashing into the towers! i can't stand it!! it's driving me insane! don't be mean please

also don't try telling me there's a 1 in a million chance that something will happen and that i have more risk of dyeing in a car..becuase it won't work! and i have to travel on the plane there's no other way around it... i am soooooo scared

also i have a major fear of the toilets on there they are so loud and when i go into the bathrooms all i think about is the floor opening and me flying into the sky...

Answer 1

You have nothing to worry about. The stuff that occurred on September 11th will never be repeated.

Answer 2

Okay, just pretend you're a bird. Or, actually I don't know. I guess I can't help because I love flying :)

But I don't know about the hijackers... still, airport security is pretty tight nowadays. I don't know who'd be the one to get a whole face transplant, then hijack?! I think that'd be harder on the hijackers than on the airline peoples.

Have fun! And airplanes have been proven safer than road travel.

Answer 3

It's still almost impossible to do a full-face transplant while maintaining natural looks of the face. As far as I know, it's still a fiction. If they can somehow do it, then the next biggest problem would be getting the airline job. Even for "normal", honest, non-terrorist people, landing an airline job is a huge goal. Most of them have to do the "instructing" route for some years before getting a small regional-airline job. I bet if that terrorist spend some years learning to fly, then some years building the experience needed before getting his airline job, by the time they actually get the job, they would cherish it so much they'll give up their original mission and be a normal pilot :P

As for your toilet question;

Toilets normally more louder than passenger cabin, because they have plumbings tapped through the floor. Those plumbings allows noise from the lower deck (cargo area) to seep in. The cargo deck are not noise-proofed well, because there is no need for that, unlike the passenger deck.

Also, the toilet flushing system uses vacuum and small amount of water to flush the toilet bowl. They're more water-efficient. The system however, creates loud noise when flushed, which is normal.

So if the toilet floor opens when you're in it (which is never happened before), the chance is that you'll fall onto a pile of bags in the cargo deck below you. Then you'll know it's a very good reason to sue the airline.

Happy flying!