Originally Posted by SFOSpiff

That's absolutely true. And I mean no disrespect to pilots by insisting they might be involved in any disastrous plot. However, consider two possible scenarios:

- a pilot's child or spouse is kidnapped and he's forced to carry a sealed envelope through security, no questions asked
- a pilot is part of a plot, but to keep his role from being revealed, so they can make repeated use of him, he carries things through security and gives them to another bad guy

I'm not taking sides in this, merely pointing out that not screening pilots because they have the ability to crash the plane isn't foolproof.