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The security is defense in depth. There are now:

- Background checks cross-references with photo ID before flying (e.g. the do not fly list)

- Enhanced security screening (there’s YouTube footage of a totally incompetent pat down of one of the 9-11 hijackers)

- Locked and strengthened cockpit doors

- A chance of an Air Marshal on a flight

- The knowledge that passengers will fight back

- Strict no-fly zones around sensitive areas like DC

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There are additional restrictions for flight around DC after 9/11, but most are SFRA (Special Flight Rules Area) or FRZ (Flight Restriction Zone) and very little of it is a Prohibited Area or Restricted Area (P- and active R- areas being what most would understand to be “no-fly zones”)

I’ve gotten cleared to land in the “DC-3” airports and have landed at College Park (inside the FRZ) and Fort Meade (inside the SFRA) many times in light aircraft.

There are restrictions, but they’re quite far from being “no-fly zones”.

> "there’s YouTube footage of a totally incompetent pat down of one of the 9-11 hijackers"

Do you have a link? I can't find this.

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