Airport Security Stinks! (pass it on)
Sep 26th, 2001, 04:13 PM
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I flew out of Orlando recently and none of my bags were checked either.
BTW, write LETTERS to your representatives because I've been told by many excellent Congressional and Senate staffers that they do not read e-mail most of the time, but take actual letters very seriously.
BTW, write LETTERS to your representatives because I've been told by many excellent Congressional and Senate staffers that they do not read e-mail most of the time, but take actual letters very seriously.
Sep 27th, 2001, 05:36 AM
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Uh oh. Airline security on the ground is substantially worse than security in the air. I wouldn't have thought it possible, but it's true.
Did you know that FAs and pilots have to walk through the metal detector like passengers, but ground crews (mechanics, etc.) have no daily security check at all? All you have to do is have a badge and swipe it into a machine to get access. You don't even have to be the person entitled to use the badge. At most or maybe even all airports, there's no metal detector or security guards to prevent a ground worker from putting a bomb on a plane, a gun on a plane, box cutters on a plane, or from sabotaging a plane.
Check out today's Washington Post.
Did you know that FAs and pilots have to walk through the metal detector like passengers, but ground crews (mechanics, etc.) have no daily security check at all? All you have to do is have a badge and swipe it into a machine to get access. You don't even have to be the person entitled to use the badge. At most or maybe even all airports, there's no metal detector or security guards to prevent a ground worker from putting a bomb on a plane, a gun on a plane, box cutters on a plane, or from sabotaging a plane.
Check out today's Washington Post.
Sep 27th, 2001, 03:31 PM
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To Huh--You are absolutely correct, but why does this information have to be made public so that any terrorist reading can get even more ideas? This applies to both you and the Post. Hopefully, the lawmakers in Congress will recognize the security flaws and act to correct them, but please don't give terrorists any more ideas in the meantime!
Sep 27th, 2001, 03:38 PM
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You know, airport security does not have to stink.
This week's New Yorker carried a story about airport security, so El Al was discussed, of course. A few years ago, they caught someone with a bomb in their luggage. The traveler was a citizen, young, female and obviously pregnant. You see, her boyfriend planted the bomb in her suitcase. El Al discovered the bomb because of the detailed questioning of passengers that they do.
Does anyone here have any doubt that, had this occurred in the U.S., the girlfriend would have been allowed to board, and the plane would have been blown to bits?
This week's New Yorker carried a story about airport security, so El Al was discussed, of course. A few years ago, they caught someone with a bomb in their luggage. The traveler was a citizen, young, female and obviously pregnant. You see, her boyfriend planted the bomb in her suitcase. El Al discovered the bomb because of the detailed questioning of passengers that they do.
Does anyone here have any doubt that, had this occurred in the U.S., the girlfriend would have been allowed to board, and the plane would have been blown to bits?
