MAS

[tanjm]

well how about rules like :
1. Never take off during heavy rain.
2. Always fuel up assuming you will need to circle 5 hours before landing.
3. Always only have one plane landing/taking off at one time.
4. Strip search all passengers and their luggage at all times.
5. Never have a pilot fly more than 20 hours in a week and 5 hours in a 24 hour cycle.
6. Always fly a plane at 3/4 capacity.
7. Equip all planes with anti-missile defences.
8. All planes must have 6 engines.
9. Do a full maintenance after every 10 hours of flying.
10. have 2 armed air marshals on every international flight.

All safety rules involve an element of risk assessment versus cost. The fact that a risk has happened (missile attack) doesn't mean it wasn't a low risk - that's the behavioral element talking. Generally, from my read of the media, no-fly notices are generally issued when it becomes known that high flying missiles or launches from military aircraft are possibilities (such as North Korea - which has a habit of launching missiles without notice).