According to Wikipedia, about 54,000.

Just saying, there was a reason the 9/11 hijackers were clean-shaven and wearing suits.

It's not as if they'd make their patsys obvious.

Okay I admit it, I have morbid curiosity as to what exactly you're implying here.

Terrorists aren't morons. In fact, they typically have engineering degrees.

I would think if they're so smart, and the TSA is so useless, we'd be seeing a lot more terrorist attacks happen on/with planes.

Terrorists: so smart and so common and the TSA so useless that there have been zero successful attacks on air travel since 9/11.

Zero.

In the United States, you mean?

Because other countries adopted similar security protocols and still MH370 and Germanwings Flight 9525 happened. And the 2004 Russian bombings.

You do have a point insofar as that 9/11 changed the game: previously a hijacking just meant you'd get an unscheduled vacation and would likely be released unharmed. Now the assumption is that it's a suicide mission so passengers will fight back.

This is nothing to do with the TSA's security theatre; it's simply because most people don't want to die.

To think overwhise is "my magic rock keeps away heffalumps" levels of reasoning.

Because there have been zero heffalump attacks since 9/11.

Zero.

What on earth are you talking about with MH370 and Germanwings 9525? Do you believe I'm claiming that the TSA prevents mentally unstable pilots from crashing passenger aircraft? In case that's actually what you understood me to be saying: no, that's not what I said.

> This is nothing to do with the TSA's security theatre; it's simply because most people don't want to die.

There are plenty of aspiring terrorists who are perfectly fine dying during their attacks... obviously...